Characters
This character is the narrator and protagonist of the novel.
Who is Scout (Jean Louis Finch)?
The crime that Tom Robinson is falsely accused of committing.
What is the assault of Mayella Ewell?
The state and town where the story takes place
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
"Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Maudie Atkinson
The time period during which the book takes place.
What is the Great Depression (1930s)?
The mysterious neighbor who leaves gifts in the tree and saves the children at the end of the story.
Who is Arthur "Boo" Radley?
Tom Robinson's physical disability, which proves he could not have committed the crime.
What is an injured/crippled left arm?
The town event where Scout wears a giant ham costume.
What is the Halloween pageant?
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view [...] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
Atticus Finch
The Finch family homestead.
What is Finch's Landing?
Scout and Jem's family cook and surrogate mother.
Calpurnia
The character who sits in the balcony with the children during the trial.
Who is Reverend Sykes?
The dangerous animal that Atticus shoots down the street.
What is the rabid dog?
"I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us."
Miss Maudie
Atticus's nickname for the town's underlying racism and prejudice.
What is Maycomb's "usual disease"?
The Finches' neighbor who loves her garden and sees Boo Radley as a kind person.
Who is Miss Maudie Atkinson?
Why is Mayella upset with Atticus? What does this suggest about her?
The person who cements the knot-hole in the oak tree.
Who is Nathan Radley?
"Hey, Boo."
Scout
The game the children play to pass the summer, acting out rumors.
What is the Boo Radley game?
The man who attacks the Finch children on Halloween night.
bob Ewell
The Maycomb prosecutor who questions Tom Robinson.
How Tom Robinson dies after the trial.
What is being shot 17 times while trying to escape prison?
"Let the dead bury their dead this time."
Heck Tate
What the mockingbird symbolizes in the novel.
What is innocence (or something that harms no one and brings only beauty)?