Characters
This character narrates the novel.
Who is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch?
The event that the entire novel revolves around and is referenced in the opening line.
What is Jem's broken arm?
Miss Caroline... He's a Cunningham.
Who is Scout Finch?
This is the town where the story takes place.
This is Atticus's primary profession.
What is a lawyer?
This character is the narrator's older brother and arguably the protagonist.
Who is Jeremy "Jem" Finch?
This punishment was given to Jem because he destroyed Mrs. Dubose's flowers.
What is reading to her every day?
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.
Who is Atticus Finch?
This is the state where the novel takes place.
What is Alabama?
This is Atticus's sister who comes to live with his family.
Who is Alexandra Finch?
This character represents the themes of childhood and innocence in the novel.
Who is Charles Baker "Dill" Harris?
The church that the Finch children visit where they learn more about Black culture.
What is First Purchase Church?
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
This is where Atticus, Jem, and Scout confront a group of men seeking to do harm.
What is the Maycomb jail?
This is the primary reason the Finch children see Atticus as weak.
What is his age?
This character has a strange habit of eating his cigars while he works.
Who is Judge Taylor?
This event almost happened at the Maycomb jail, if not for the intervention of Scout.
What is the lynching of Tom Robinson?
I shall never marry, Atticus. ... I might have children.
Who is Uncle Jack Finch?
This is the name of the Finch estate, where the family goes for Christmas.
What is Finch's Landing?
This is the childhood nickname of Atticus.
What is "One Shot" Finch?
This character is seen in town as a drunk who doesn't follow social norms.
Who is Dolphus Raymond?
This item was the one thing that Atticus made sure to save from Miss Maudie's house when it caught fire.
What is her rocking chair?
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Who is Miss Maudie Atkinson?
What is Meridian, Mississippi?
The term that Scout uses to describe how Atticus treats his children.
What is "courteous detachment"?