[Joey_26_Quotes(1)] Here are some important quotes in To Kill A Mocking Bird
1) "Remember that it's a sin to kill a mocking bird" - This quote is rather important as it contains part of the book title. It can tell us, if we read on, what the title means or why it was actually used. It can help give us an overall on what 'To Kill A Mocking Bird' means.
2)Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. - Again, this line mentions sort of tells the readers that mockingbirds are "good" creatures. Remember the title says "To Kill A Mocking Bird", and if this line tells us that the mockingbirds are "good" and that the previous line tells us it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, this line is therefore important as it brings out more suspense and therefore enables the reader to start questioning more about the book.
*3) 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. - This sentence tells us more about 'children'. In the book, there is a quote by Charles Lamb saying "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once". Now, although the quote is not really included in the actual story itself, it is somewhat important as the story is about a lawyer's and his advice to his children and so on. Therefore, this quote shows us relation between the lawyer and the child and what the similarities and differences are.
*4) Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it. This sentence is important because the sentence refers how bad language is a stage where all children go through, and that it dies within time. But remember, the story has an amount of profane language, or rather the use of one single profane word repeatedly. ( The word is n***er, sorry about this) Then again, the previous sentence says that lawyers were somewhat once children too. If so, how come they are using such language? Didn't this sentence say that bad language would die off? Seeing as there is a "conflict" between sentences, I conclude that this sentence is indeed important as now readers can compare as to the 'conflict' sentences and see for themselves which sentence is really true.
Reference: http://quotations.about.com/od/tokillamockingbirdquote/a/mockingbird6.htm * Note that the link has other related links and I may have gotten some information from them.