“So it took an eight-year-old child to bring ‘em to their senses, didn’t it?” said Atticus. “That proves something that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human.” – I chose this passage because this is explaining the prejudice in the town, and how even through all the hate that is in the town for this one man… a single child can make a dozen men stop in their tracks and turn around and leave.
“Aren’t you goin’ down to watch?” asked Dill. “I am not. ‘t’s morbid, watching a poor devil on trial for his life. Look at all those folks, it’s like a Roman carnival. – This was important to me because even the kids are starting to take the opinions or actions like the whole town, by going to the trial to see this man’s conviction, where as Miss Maudie looks at it as something sinful, and not right .
“If her right eye was blacked and she was beaten moslty on the right side of her face, it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it.” pg 178— Seeing that Tom Robinson has a crippled left arm, and is right handed, but Mr. Ewell is left handed it pretty much makes it obvious who the criminal is in this case, but later on shows that maybe just because all the evidence points to that one person, prejudice gets the best of it.
“This case is as simple as black and white.” pg. 203 – When atticus says this, its such irony because people use the term, its as simple as black and white but in this case it really is choosing a black man who is clearly innocent or a white man who is guilty, but because this is a prejudice act… it shows who will win.
