Takeaways from To Kill a Mockingbird
Out of 3.5 years spent in a fully residential engineering college, which was away from the hustle bustle of the city. Had Aravalli hills in the backdrop. Routine was to manage attending classes, eat, sleep, repeat to be precise. Along with these, long walks together or alone were a part of the routine. Come what may rain, summers, winters, next day exams one thing that remained constant was a walk. I miss walks the most even now and some conversations as well. Amidst all these out of 3.5 yrs, there must have been only 1–2 visits to library per semester. The exact count I still doubt. During those visits, one book that caught my attention and was worth the read was “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Time has passed by, but the things that struck the chord remain forever. So, after almost 2–3 years from the time I read this book. Sharing across the compilation of all those beautiful lines, quotes which kept me emotionally connected to the book. Time and again I still ponder on these depending on the circumstances. Might not be able to put up reference lines because I never penned down things while reading the book. But, for all here are
some quotes.
- “ People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for” This is one of the many lines that makes sense every now and then. The root cause of all the misunderstandings is the communication gap. We hear more often than we listen. React even more swift than the situation demands.
- “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…. until you climb into his skin and walk around it” reminds me how often people are judged for there actions, the work.
- “I wanted you to see what courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand it’s when you know you are licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what”
- “Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about the person isn’t the way they actually are…”
- “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
- “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of (another) …. There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
- “Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
- “There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.”
9. “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into there jury box. As you grow older you’ll see white man cheat black man every day of your life. But let me tell you something and don’t you forget it — when a white man does it to a black man no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is a trash”.
10. “… But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down”
