Characters
The children's closest adult friend; bakes the children cakes
Miss Maudie
“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
The novel is narrated from which point-of-view?
First Person
Moral Responsibility
Atticus
“The Radley place fascinated Dill. In spite of our warnings it drew him as the moon draws water…”
Simile
Scout's classmate who refuses to take Miss Caroline's money because he knows he can't pay it back.
Walter Cunningham
"His food doesn't stick going down, does it?"
Miss Maudie
What is Scout’s full name?
Jean Louise Finch
Vengeance
Bob Ewell
“She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop.”
Simile
An old, racist woman who battled a morphine addiction
Ms. Dubose
“I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.”
Scout
Why does Mr. Radley shoot at Jem, Scout and Dill?
The kids are trespassing on the Radley yard
Shame
Mayella Ewell
“From the day Mr. Radley took Arthur home, people say the house died.”
Personification
Scout’s first grade teacher with whom Scout gets off to a bad start
Miss Caroline
“Secretly, Miss Finch, I'm not much of a drinker, buy you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because, that's the way I want to live.”
Mr. Dalphus Raymond
According to Atticus, what makes up a mob?
People you know.
Adolescence & Curiosity
Jem
“From the day Mr. Radley took Arthur home, people say the house died.”
Personification
Tom Robinson and Helen Robinson’s employer
Link Deas
“If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?”
Jem
To Kill a Mockingbird fits within the genre(type) of…
Narrative Fiction
Desire to die free.
Mrs. Dubose
“I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fish pool smoking string, Dill’s eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking.”
Metaphor