To kill a mockingbird quotes (meaning and context)?

Question

i have to chose two quotes i chose

" just because we were licked hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win"

" it was times like these when i thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived"

Answer 1

Um, thoes aren't the best.

I would pick a quote from Atticus's closing statement or from the scene where Scout walks Boo Radley home and sees the world from his point of view. Those two scenes really show what the book is about. You should also do the "Mockingbird" quote itself.

"Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit 'em but remember that it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird."

(Tom Robinson is the Mockingbird and Bob Ewell is the bluejay)

I don't think you picked effective quotes but this is what they are about.

1. He's saying that just because the blacks were beaten and broken a long time ago isn't a reason not to fight back now. They shouldn't accept they're situation just because that's the way it's always been.  

2. Atticus was brave because he selflessly defended a man knowing he couldn't win. Atticus knew he would face retribution for defending Tom Robinson but he walked into the situation with his head held high. He defended him as best he could. Atticus knew what would happen but he did it anyway because he knew it was right.

Answer 2

Try one of these:

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11, spoken by the character Atticus

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. " ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 9, spoken by the character Atticus

Answer 3

you should pick different quotes, I LOVED that book, and there's so many to pick from (good ones).

those arent' the greatest ones.