Setting/Intro
The decade the novel takes place
The 1930s
Narrator and the main character; Scout's real name
Jean Louis Finch
Maycomb's greatest mystery, said to have stabbed father with scissors
Boo Radley
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
Atticus Finch
What happened to Miss Maudie's house?
It burned down
The location of the novel
Maycomb, Alabama
Scout's older brother
Jem Finch
Scout's first grade teacher
Miss Caroline Fisher
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
Scout Finch
Gifts were left for Scout and Jem here
The tree knothole
The author of the novel
Harper Lee
Scout and Jem's father
Atticus Finch
The Finch's neighbor whose house burned down
Miss Maudie
“Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin' the way you're disgracin' 'em.”
Calpurnia
Atticus did this to Tim Johnson, the rabid dog.
Shot him
The narrator of the story
Scout
The Finch's housekeeper and cook
Calpurnia
Atticus's sister; runs Finch's Landing
Aunt Alexandra
Atticus ain’t ever whipped me since I can remember. I want to keep it that way.
Jem Finch
It hadn't done this in Maycomb since 1885
Snowed
The genre of the story
Scout and Jem's best friend
Dill Harris
Sheriff of Maycomb
Heck Tate
" We were playin' strip poker up yonder by the fish pond"
Dill Harris
Miss Fisher doesn't like that Scout can do this
Read and write