Characters
Character that breaks his arm when he is attacked by Bob Ewell.
Who is Jem?
Character that is the town gossip.
Who is Miss Stephanie?
The two mockingbirds in the story
Who are Tom Robinson and Boo Radley?
An author's diction for describing setting, characters, and events is also known as.
What is tone?
setting of the novel
What is Maycomb, Alabama; 1930s
Character that narrates the novel
Who is Scout?
Terrible thing that Bob Ewell does to Atticus after the trial
What is spits in his face?
Reason that Atticus sits outside of the jailhouse at night
What is to protect Tom Robinson from a lynching?
"I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with" (41).
Scout is constantly faced with societal expectations as she battles appropriate feminine behaviors versus staying true to her innocence. Choosing to hang out with Jem and Dill the majority of the time can alter Scout's thoughts as well as cloud her judgement.
Character is nicknamed "Boo"?
Who is Arthur Radley?
Character that is Dill's aunt.
Who is Miss Rachel?
When and where the novel takes place
What is setting?
The atmosphere an author creates to get the reader to feel a certain way.
What is mood?
three things that the children find in knothole of the tree
What is string, Indian head pennies, soap dolls, watch, knife, gum?
Character that filled the knothole with cement
Who is Nathan Radley?
Character who cries after the verdict is read
Who is Jem?
What Sheriff Heck Tate testifies about Mayella's injuries
What is she was beaten on the right side of her face and around her throat?
“ Mr. Cunningham’s basically a good man, “ he said “ he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us (157).
This continues the small town prejudice way of thinking. You can be an upright man, kind to many and still get sucked into believing the "norms" you are surrounded with.
Character that lost his life when he felt sorry for a woman and decided to help her?
Who is Tom Robinson?
Character whose house burned down.
Who is Miss Maudie?
The mockingbird represents a helpless person who does not cause harm
What is symbol?
Three themes of the novel
What is racial prejudice, social prejudice, courage? (Also could be similar answers)
Reason Atticus reluctant to shoot the rabid dog
What is he doesn't like to shoot guns and kill things
Character that is housekeeper for the Finches
Who is Calpurnia?
Reason that Dill runs away from home
What is his parents don't care about him?
The person that said you have to walk around in a man's shoes before you can understand him
Who is Atticus
“Well, Dill, after all he’s just a Nergo. I don’t care one speck. It ain’t right, somehow it ain’t right to do ‘em that way. Hasn’t anybody got any business talkin’ like that-it just makes me sick” (199).
Innocence is turning to anger with a maturing mind in the society Dill lives in. He is sick of how poor others treat people who are different and can't make sense of why that is allowed.
Character that preferred African Americans to the whites in Maycomb?
Who is Dolphus Raymond?
Character who is the new teacher and doesn't understand Maycomb's ways.
Who is Miss Caroline?
What would an appropriate "credo" for Scout be?
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the first person narrator
Who is Scout?
Reason that Scout gets in big trouble at Aunt Alexandra's house
What is she punches Francis in the mouth (starts a fight with Francis)?
Character that is the wife of Tom Robinson
Who is Helen?
"Problem" that Dolphus Raymond does not actually have
What is a drinking problem?
Why Atticus gave up shooting
What is he had an unfair advantage over animals?
"...but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears" (362).
Scout sees Boo and remembers what he fault says about seeing things through other people's perspectives, and now she sees Boo as a "neighbor" instead of a horror story told by the town.
Character that appointed an honest lawyer to defend Tom Robinson.
Who is Judge Taylor?
Dill's real name.
Who is Charles Baker Harris?
What literary style of writing is displayed in the following quote:
"She was now standing arms akimbo, her shoulders drooping a little, her head cocked to one side, her glasses winking in the sunlight" (159).
What is a parallelism?
Choose one of the following an explain a connection to the text:
"Remember Rosewood"
"Sympathy"
"Caged Bird"
"Southern Horrors"
Answers vary
Reason that Atticus says not to shoot mockingbirds
What is they don't do anything and only sing?
Character that is too poor to have lunch money
Who is Walter Cunningham?
Reason that the jury finds Tom Robinson guilty
What is they are prejudiced?
The way that Miss Maudie felt about her house burning
What is she was glad?
"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box" (295).
Atticus is saying that he believes that it is important to receive equal treatment under the law. He attempts to explain to Jem that equal treatment was not the result of this case because of the prejudice jury and how they still deny a person justice even if they are entitled to it.