Characters
The narrator of the novel who asks lots of questions, loves to read, and used to get into lots of fights
Jean Louise "Scout" Finch
Miss Maudie's house
Atticus tries to get Scout to ______________
See things from other people's perspective (Empathize)
Scout looks up to me because I teach her small life lessons, but we start to drift apart. I am older than her and often make fun of her for "being a girl"
Jeremy "Jem" Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during
The Great Depression / the 1930s
From Meridian, Mississippi, knows how to read, and won a beautiful babies contest for $5
Dill Harris
How Tom Robinson's arm gets injured
It is caught in a cotton gin when he was a boy
It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because
All they do is make beautiful music, they don't harm anyone
I fill the hole in the tree that is on the edge of my property with cement
Mr. Nathan Radley
A friend of Scout's who gets her in trouble on the first day of school because he doesn't accept Miss Caroline's quarter for lunch
Walter Cunningham Junior
The gossip queen of Maycomb County who insists that she saw Boo Radley peeping through her window one night
Miss Stephanie Crawford
Aunt Alexandra gets mad at Scout for
How Scout's perspective of Mayella changes
She realizes she was probably the loneliest girl in the town, even lonelier than Boo Radley
I teach Scout that she should never insult her guests: they could eat the kitchen table cloth if they wanted to!
Calpurnia
Ebonics is
A dialect of English spoken by black Americans. It has specific grammatical and syntactical rules and structures
Cousin Francis
Atticus's coolness factor increases in the eyes of Jem and Scout because
The essential message of Mr. B.B. Underwood's editorial
Tom Robinson's death was racist, wrong, and hateful
I insult Atticus in his own home, saying that he is misguided for defending Tom Robinson
Mrs. Merriweather
Takes care of the red geraniums
Mayella Ewell
The child who insults Miss Caroline on the first day of school, has cooties in his hair, and never goes to school after day 1
Burris Ewell
The man on the jury who attempts to help Atticus sway the jury
One of the Cunningham Cousins from Old Sarum
"In the secret courts of men's hearts, Atticus had no case"
Changing the way people feel on the inside is hard to do when it is so heavily ingrained in their belief system. Atticus did not stand a chance at winning Tom's trial
Atticus believes I am the bravest person he knows
Mrs. Dubose
How and why Bob Ewell dies
Boo Radley stabs him for attacking Jem and Scout