Any good quotes to round off an essay on family life in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Question

I think it would be good if i could end my essay with a quote from the book about family life...

Any ideas?

Answer 1

So you see, in the end, Scout really didnt know boo.

Answer 2

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. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11

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


Atticus Finch: I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us.

Answer 3

I'm not sure who said this, but you might want to look into the phrase, "Happy families are all happy in the same way, but unhappy families are unhappy in different ways." i'm not sure if that's the exact quote but it might work....


I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H


The family is a haven in a heartless world. ~Attributed to Christopher Lasch
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