Session 2 - Passage Master

“I don’t know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit”

This quote is about the Ewells. It is talking about how they are considered exceptions to the law. The town ignores that the father hunts out of season and that the kids only go to school once a year. Scout says that this is bad, and Atticus explains to her that since the father spends all his relief check on alcohol, and his children cry from hunger, no “landowner around here … begrudges those children any game their father can hit.” Scout says that Mr.Ewell shouldn’t do that, and Atticus tells her that even though he shouldn’t nothing is going to change. This quote is important because it shows how certain exceptions are made to the law when people realize that nothing will change the way things are.

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than whisky in the hand of – oh, of your father.”

This quote is about how certain men take the Bible so seriously that they will injure, or hurt the feelings of, people because they are too concerned with not going to Hell. These “foot-washers believe anything that’s pleasure is a sin.” They will not only restrict their own lives, but they will try to restrict other peoples’. They told Miss Maudie that her and her flowers were going to Hell, because she spent too much time enjoying the outdoors and not enough time studying Bible. It is also important because it affects Scout’s faith in God when she hears the Miss Maudie is going to Hell. “How so reasonable a creature could live in peril of everlasting torment was incomprehensible.”


- Bailey