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 Current Search - why in To Kill a Mockingbird
1  Well I can tell you why I didn't.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17
2  "Wonder why he never goes huntin now," I said.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10
3  It seemed real quiet like, an I didn't quite know why.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 19
4  She said I didn't understand children much and told me why.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
5  No," said Jem, "nobody ever knew quite why but Mr. Dolphus.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16
6  "That's why you don't talk like the rest of 'em," said Jem.'
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12
7  He had to, that's why he was doing it, equaled fewer fights and less fussing.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16
8  '"I said somethin' like, why Miss Mayella, that's right smart o'you to treat 'em.'
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 19
9  I asked Atticus why, and he said it was because the National Recovery Act was dead.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 27
10  I wondered why he had those marks on him, His sleeves were perforated with little holes.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 29
11  Rather nervous, I took a seat beside Miss Maudie and wondered why ladies put on their hats to go across the street.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24
12  I said I didn't see why we had to keep our heads anyway, that nobody I knew at school had to keep his head about anything.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11
13  When Jem and I asked him why he was so old, he said he got started late, which we felt reflected upon his abilities and manliness.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10
14  The judge asked Mr. Conner why he included the last charge; Mr. Conner said they cussed so loud he was sure every lady in Maycomb heard them.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
15  She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn't ready to come.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
16  Their ways were strange to us, and why they wanted a cellar nobody knew, but they wanted one and they dug one, and they spent the rest of their lives chasing generations of children out of it.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 27
17  I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4
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