How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own." (11.123)
This is good advice from Calpurnia to Jean Louise. If only the so-called high-class white people would take it.
Quote #8
"Up popped the ugliest, most shameful aspect of [Reconstruction]—the breed of white man who lived in open economic competition with feed Negroes. For years and years all that man thought he had that made him any better than his black brothers was the color of his skin. He was just as dirty, he smelled just as bad, he was just as poor." (14.122-14.123)
To Uncle Jack, Reconstruction blurred the class lines for many people. And to him, that is a bad thing. To him, white people should automatically be of a higher class than black people, simply because of the color of their skin.
Quote #9
A diploma meant more to Henry than to most of his friends. It was all right for some of them to be expelled; in a pinch, they could go off to a boarding school. (15.153)
Because Henry is lower class, education is important. He has to earn his place in society. But the principal of the school would expel him in an instant. As a member of the lower class, Henry is viewed much like someone would view an insect. Easy to squash out… for whatever reason.