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"...Remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird...Mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in corn cribs, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us..." - Atticus**
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I think that this is a really important quote because it relates to people to and it describes many events that go on in the book. Some people (like Tom) don't deserve to be treated bad when they did nothing. Tom did nothing to Mayella but he is being accused of doing something.

"I found all these in the ole tree...at different time. This spelling medal. You know, they used to award these in school to spelling winners before we were born. and another time I found this pocket watch. And this pocketknife..." -Jem**
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I think that this is really important in the book because it shows someone is out there looking after Scout and Jem. Their way of showing that they care about Scout and Jem is by leaving important things. It also creates a mystery so you don't really know till the end which is also important.

"Hey Mr. Cunningham, How's your entailment getting along?" -Scout**
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I think that this quote is really important because it make Mr. Cunningham stop and kind of realize what he is doing. It also help Atticus out because there were many men and only one of him. It also shows that Scout sort of knew what was going on to try and help out... and it worked!

"Now, wait a minute. If you can learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." -Atticus**
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This quote shows that Scout mostly just looks at her view of things and not others. I think that Atticus is trying to say here that you can't judge them or understand them because you haven't been though the same experiences that they have so you don't really know. It is important in the book and also to learn in the really world too.

"Miss Jean Louise, stand us, your father's passin'" -Sykes**
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I think that this quote means a lot to the story. The people standing for her father are paying him respect and i think that is very symbolic. Thats a good thing because he just accepted a case that he may not have believed in; and he fought and did his job to the best of his ability. I think that this also shows that people just believed in the case he just fought.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, Son. I wish i could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible" -Atticus**
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I think that this shows that Atticus really cares about them and wanted to keep the protected. I think Atticus is relating to Mr. Ewell and all the bad things that have been going on that Atticus thinks Jem should be exposed to. Jem knows much for a little 10 year old and i think that Atticus is scared about him growing up too!