Characters
This character is a recluse, and his life is shrouded in mystery
Boo Radley
The fictitious city and state in which the story is set.
Maycomb, Alabama
The mockingbird represents what theme?
Sin
It was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate grey yard around it.
The Radley house
She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop.
Simile
Scout initially sees as tyrannical and horrible, but as she begins to grow, she comes to understand that ____ truly does love and care for her.
Calpurnia
The name of the era in which the story is set.
Depression Era
The loss of innosence represents what theme?
Coming of Age
...window-frames were black against a vivid orange centre.'
Miss Maudie's burning home
In spite of our warnings and explanations it drew him as the moon draws water, but drew him no nearer than the light-pole on the corner, a safe distance from the Radley gate.
Simile
The Finches’ neighbor across the street. She loves to garden but hates her house.
Miss Maudie
The location where the lower income residents live such as the Ewells.
The dump
The knot hole in the tree represents which theme?
Companionship
Jem's action in cutting off their heads symbolizes his youthful rashness in thinking that prejudice can be dealt with so simply.
Camellias
I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something.
metaphor
The racist patriarch of the Ewell family, which lives behind the Maycomb dump.
Bob Ewell
Who is the president of this era?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Though the trial of Tom Robinson takes up only about one tenth of the book, it represents the narrative center around which the rest of the novel revolves.
The law
Together with references to disease in the novel, to represent the racialism which is rampant in the South, and spreads like a contagion.
The mad dog
As a result the town remained the same size for a hundred years, an island in a patchwork sea of cottonfields and timberland.
Metaphor
like all preachers in her experience, he’s preoccupied with sin and insisting that women are…
Reverend Sykes
During this time, forty-four percent of all banks had failed, according to the National Archives, eliminating a lifetime of savings for many Americans.
Stock Market Crash
People such as Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are not prepared for the evil that they encounter, and, as a result, they are destroyed.
Good and evil
Does it mean, as some critics suggest, that black and white cannot mix, or is it the case, as others state, that black and white are virtually the same?
The snowman
The Governor was eager to scrape a few barnacles off the ship of state; there were sit-down strikes in Birmingham; bread lines in the cities grew longer, people in the country grew poorer.
Metaphor