Characters 1
I’m proud of my son, who leads the First Purchase congregation with linin’
Who is Calpurnia?
My wife died when my kids were just two and six years old.
Who is Atticus?
“Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.”
Who is Scout?
“I know all that, Scout. It was the way he said it made me sick, plain sick.”
Who is Dill Harris?
The setting of the novel.
Where is Maycomb Alabama in the 1930's?
My arm was mangled in farm machinery when I was a boy
Who is Tom Robinson?
I’ve never accepted charity/hand-outs and I never will.
Who is Mr. Cunningham?
“I wish Bob Ewell wouldn’t chew tobacco.”
Who is Atticus?
“Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em–”
Who is Tom Robinson?
The narration style of the novel.
What is first person?
I beat my addiction and die on my own terms.
Who is Mrs. Dubose?
I’m described as a “pocket Merlin” and a “stray dog.”
Who is Dill?
“I was just walking by when it crawled out of his hair...just crawled out of his hair–”
Miss Caroline
“So you brought that dirty little sister of yours, did you?”
Who is Mrs. Dubose?
Calpurnia's son who picked up Tim Johnson's body.
Who is Zeebo?
I am the person whose questioning of Tom Robinson makes Dill physically ill.
Who is Mr. Gilmer?
To protect Boo Radley, I’m going to lie about the physical evidence I found.
Who is Heck Tate?
“...I’ll say this: Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.”
Who is Miss Maudie?
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for, and they have the right to subject their children to it...”
Who is Judge Taylor?
The kind of narrator that Scout is.
What is an unreliable narrator?
I try to spruce up my home with red geraniums.
Who is Mayella Ewell?
I make sure those Finch kids have good seats during the trial.
Who is Reverend Sykes?
“Living in that jungle with nobody but J. Grimes Everett. Not a white person’ll go near ‘em but that saintly J. Grimes Everett.”
Mrs. Merriweather
“Don’t yawl come over here for a while.”
Who is Zeebo?
How Scout and Jem's mother died.
What is a sudden heart attack?