characters
Atticus' daughter
Scout (Jean Louise) Finch
Scout, Jem, & Dill sit with him at the trial
Rev. Skyes
"The way that man called him 'boy' all the time and sneered at him...Hasn't anybody got any business talking' like that- it just makes me sick."
"I'm just trying to tell you the new way they're teachin' the first grade, stubborn. It's the Dewey Decimal System."
Malapropism
The time period of the novel is...
1930's
Cook for the Finches
Calpurnia
He is accused of raping a white woman
Tom Robinson
"Let the dead bury the dead."
Heck Tate
FL
"Our first raid came to pass only because Dill bet Jem The Gray Ghost against two Tom Swifts that Jem wouldn't get any farther than the Radley gate."
Allusion
The setting takes place in...
Maycomb, Alabama
Dill's Aunt
Miss Rachael Haverford
She accuses him of rape
Mayella Ewell
Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right It's that simple."
Miss Maudie
FL
"Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty & Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry, who left home as soon as was humanly possible, married, & produced Francis."
Euphemism
Symbol: S
Boo's gifts to the children
Friendship
Breaks her morphine addiction
Mrs. Dubose
Prosecuting attorney
Mr. Glimer
"In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson."
Atticus
FL
"Did you hear about?...No? Well, they say he was runnin' fit to beat lightnin'..."
Idiom
The Mad (Rabid) Dog
Racism
Scout's older brother
Jem Finch
Sheriff of Maycomb County
Mr. Heck Tate
"Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too."
Dolphus Raymond
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight & they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep."
Atticus
Symbol
Ladies Missionary Circle Meetings
Hypocrisy