TES To Kill a Mockingbird Part 1
The biggest prize in the knot-hole
pocket watch with knife and chain
Heck Tate
Sheriff of Maycomb
Charles Baker Harris
Dill; visits next door during the summer
Setting of the novel
1930s Maycomb, Alabama
Mrs. Dubose
A racist old lady who lives down the street and who screams at the children as they pass her house.
Jem and Scout's father
Atticus
Uncle Jack
Atticus and Alexandra's brother who visits at Christmas and is a doctor
Aunt Alexandra
Atticus's sister, a strong-willed woman with a fierce devotion to her family. She is the perfect Southern lady, and her commitment to propriety and tradition often leads her to clash with Scout.
Arthur Radley
Boo
Finch family cook and housekeeper
Calpurnia
Atticus Finch
Father to Scout and Jem; lawyer who defends Tom Robinson
Miss Maudie
Finch's neighbor, children's best friend among the adults of Maycomb.
Burris Ewell
Had lice, cusses out the teacher, only goes to the first day of school every year
Maycomb County Sheriff
Heck Tate
He invents the Boo Radley game "One Man's Family"
Jem
Prejudice and racism
Maycomb's "usual disease"
Her house burns down
Miss Maudie
Jem has to read to her
Mrs. Dubose
Maycomb, Alabama
Name of the town in TKAM
Atticus' nickname, according to Miss Maudie
One-Shot Finch
Boo Radley
Rarely leaves the house, leaves Jem and Scout trinkets
The narrator of the story
Scout
Cecil Jacobs
Scout's classmate who insults Atticus
What Atticus thinks Scout should fight with instead of fists
Scout's head
Walter Cunningham
Scout's school mate who cannot afford lunch
Calpurnia
The Finch's housekeeper; acts as a more distant mother-figure to Jem and Scout
Miss Stephanie
The neighborhood gossip
Nathan Radley
The stern, distant brother of Boo who seldom speaks even though he is seen every day
The rabid dog
Tim Johnson
The man Atticus is defending
Tom Robinson
Found in knot-hole on last day of Scout's first year
Two pennies
Scout finds these first in the tree knot-hole
Two pieces of gum
Douses his food with syrup at lunch
Walter Cunningham
Miss Caroline
Young teacher, disaproves of Scout's reading ability
Harper Lee
author of To Kill A Mockingbird
Atticus tells Scout this is how to understand another person
climb in his skin and walk around in it
Jeremy Atticus Finch
full name of Jem who is son of Atticus and brother to Scout
Jean Louise Finch
full name of Scout who is daughter of Atticus and sister of Jem
It's a sin to kill this
mockingbird
Great Depression
the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s
