Characters
The narrator in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Scout Finch?
The name of the fictitious county in Alabama.
Maycomb County
This Robert Frost poem best describes the night that Miss Maudie Atkinson's house burns.
"Fire and Ice"
"Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself." This era is depicted early in the novel and explains what crisis in America?
The Great Depression
“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to" to do this.
To kill a mockingbird
The name of the reclusive character who watches over the neighborhood youngsters.
Who is Boo Radley
The name of the family that lives closest to the school
Radley
The excuse of why Jem is missing his pants.
Strip Poker by the fish pond.
This place is described in chapter 1 as "Rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda; oak trees kept the sun away. The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard- a "swept" yard that was never swept- where johnson grass and rabbit-tobacco grew in abundance."
The Radley House
“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
Dill
The Sherriff of the county
Who is Heck Tate?
The name of the boy who lives next to the post office.
Cecil Jacobs
After cousin Francis runs his mouth, Scout gets even by doing this.
Punches him in the mouth.
This character says, “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.”
Mr. Dolphus Raymond
"Jeremey Finch, I told you you'd live to regret tearing up my Camelias."
Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose
The neighborhood scold.
Miss Stephanie Crawford
You would have to walk past this municipal facility to get to the Ewell place.
The town dump
Calpurnia teaches Scout a valuable lesson at dinner with this classmate.
Walter Cunningham
"I wondered if anybody had ever called her ma'am or THIS... her real name.... in her life; probably not"
Miss Mayella Ewell
“Why, one sprig of nutgrass can ruin a whole yard. Look here. When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over Maycomb County”
Miss. Maudie Atkinson
Calpurnia's son's name.
Zeebo
Name of the four states that touch Alabama
Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia
This character stopped, but she said, "You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here—they got their church, we got our'n. It is our church, ain't it...?
Lula
This businessman said, "I just want the whole lot of you to know one thing right now. That boy's worked for me eight years an' I ain't had a speck o'trouble outa him. Not a speck."
Mr. Link Deas
This person said, "That boy is yo company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?"
Calpurnia