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Characters
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The Trial
Themes and Symbols
Quotes
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The narrator an protagonist of the novel.

Who is Jean Louise "Scout" Finch?

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The town and state the book takes place in.

What is Maycomb, Alabama?

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The black man on trial for raping a white woman.

Who is Tom Robinson?

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Name one of the possible themes of the novel.

What is "Courage is doing what is right even when the odds of succeeding are poor," "Prejudice and superstition can lead to injustice," or "One person's wrongdoing can release evil into the entire community"?

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Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quote: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. ...Until you climb around inside of his skin and walk around in it."
Who is Atticus? Scout is learning to see things from other people's perspectives. She is growing up.
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Scout's brother, and playmate. Truly believes Atticus will win the trial.

Who is Jeremy Atticus "Jem" Finch?

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Dill's hometown.

What is Meridian, Mississippi?

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Atticus proves Mayella Ewell was beaten mostly on the right side of her face. Explain the reason this means it couldn't have been Tom.

What is the attacker would have been left-handed and Tom has no use of his left hand?

200

What does the mockingbird represent?

What is an innocent person who does no harm to anyone but who is harmed?

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Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quote: "Don't you remember me, Mr. Cunningham? I'm Jean Louise Finch. You brought us some hickory nuts one morning, remember? We had a talk. I went and got my daddy to come out and thank you. I go to school with your boy. ...Tell him 'hey' for me, won't you?"
Who is Scout? This is important because she is having a normal conversation with Mr. Cunningham while the mob is there to harm Tom and possibly her father. Her simple polite conversation and childlike innocence saved the day.
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Scout and Jem's summer friend who stays with his aunt Stephanie.

Who is Charles Baker "Dill" Harris?

300

The Finch children find gifts hidden in the knothole of a tree in front of this house.

What is the Radley house?

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How Atticus proved Bob Ewell could have been the one to attack his own daughter.

What is he asks Ewell to write his name and he is left-handed?

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Explain how Boo Radley is a mockingbird by giving an example of a kind act and how he is treated by others.

What is he leaves gifts in the knothole for Jem and Scout, he folds Jem's pants on the fence, or he saves their lives and the children make up stories about him, townspeople talk about him?

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Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quote: "I can't use my left hand at all. I got it caught in a cotton gin when I was twelve years old. All my muscles were torn loose."
Who is Tom Robinson? This is important because it shows that Tom has no use of his left hand and proves that if Mayella was beaten on the right side of her face, Tom could not have been the attacker.
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Bob Ewell's abused and lonely daughter who accuses Tom Robinson of raping her.

Who is Mayella Ewell?

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Where Walter Cunningham and the mob are from.

What is Old Sarum?

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The verdict.

What is guilty?

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Choose another character in the novel and explain how they are a mockingbird.

What is Tom because he tries to help Mayella and is convicted of rape or Jem because he tries to help his family, isn't always treated right by Scout, and is disappointed by the verdict.

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Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quote: "What's the matter, boy? Can't you talk? Didn't you know your daddy's the best shot in this county?"
Who is Sheriff Heck Tate? This is important because the children have just watched Atticus shoot a mad dog and have learned that he is the best shot in Maycomb County and they thought he couldn't do anything.
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A drunken, racist, unemployed man who doesn't provide for his family and threatens Atticus and the children.

Who is Bob Ewell?

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Where the Ewells live.

What is behind the dump near the "black" part of town.

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This character is utterly crushed by the verdict and loses faith in humanity.

Who is Jem Finch?

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How does Scout learn that it is important to see from other people's perspectives or "walk in their shoes?"

What is she gets in trouble when she tries to tell Miss Caroline about the Cunninghams and she sees things from Boo's perspective when she walks off his front porch?

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Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quote: "Bob Ewell fell on his knife. He killed himself. There's a black man dead for no reason, and now the man responsible for it is dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. I never heard tell that it's against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed, which is exactly what he did."
Who is Sheriff Heck Tate? This is important because Tate is saying that it's Ewell's fault Tom is dead and now he's dead too. He's also claiming that he fell on his own knife to spare Boo Radley the publicity of people knowing that he saved the children and rid the town of Ewell.