To Kill a Mockingbird book review

Scout

Whose real name is Jean Louise Finch?

Jem

Who cried over the guilty verdict?

Atticus

Who was also known as "Ol' One Shot"?

Calpurnia

Who takes Scout and Jem to her church?

Miss Maudie

Who lost her home to a fire?

Aunt Alexandra

Who disapproved of the way Scout was being raised?

Uncle Jack

Who punished Scout for cursing?

Dill

Who is Scout's fiancé?

Boo Radley

Who saved Scout and Jem from the attack?

Nathan Radley

Who is Arthur Radley's brother?

Miss Stephanie

Who is the nosy gossipy neighbor?

Walter Cunningham, Jr.

Who poured syrup all over his food?

Tom Robinson

Who has a crippled arm from a cotton gin accident?

Miss Caroline

Who is Scout's first grade teacher?

Link Deas

Who gave Helen Robinson a job?

Mayella Ewell

Who lied about being raped?

Mrs. Dubose

Who was a morphine addict?

Dolphus Raymond

Who pretends to be drunk, but really drinks Coke?

Bob Ewell

Who writes left-handed?

Heck Tate

Who is the Sheriff of Maycomb?

Atticus

• the lawyer defending Tom Robinson

• Scout and Jem's single father

• tells Scout they will keep reading at night if she keeps going to school

Scout

Jean Louise Finch

• a tomboy who likes to fight

Uncle Jack Finch

Atticus' brother who is a doctor

• spanks Scout for punching Francis and cussing but apologizes later when he finds out why she did it

Aunt Alexandra

Atticus' sister

• comes to live with the Finches to give Scout a female role model

thinks Scout should think and act like a girl

• won't let Scout visit Cal's house

Francis

• the Finches' cousin whom Scout gets into a fight with when he calls Atticus names

Calpurnia

• the Finches' cook who is also like a second mother to the children

• African American woman who takes them to her church

Tom Robinson

• Black man accused of raping Mayella Ewell

• he is unable to use his left hand which would have made it quite difficult for him to attack Mayella the way she says he did

• is shot 17 times and killed by prison guards when he tries to escape

• the children sit with him during the trial

Dill

• Charles Baker Harris

• Scout's "fiance" who is passed around from family member to family member throughout the year

• tells all sorts of crazy stories about who his daddy is

• wants to be a clown when he grows up

• Scout finds him under her bed

Heck Tate

• sheriff in Maycomb

• testifies that they did NOT call a doctor for Mayella

• tells Atticus that "Bob Ewell fell on his knife" because he believes it would be wrong to drag Boo out into the limelight for killing Bob Ewell

Miss Maudie

• nice Baptist neighbor who makes the kids 3 little cakes and takes good care of her flowers

• her house catches fire

• talks to the children like adults

• teaches them many lessons, like that Atticus does the town's dirty work for them and is the same in his house as he is in public

Mrs. Dubose

• an addict whom Atticus said was the bravest person he ever knew

• Jem and Scout have to read to her because Jem broke her flower bushes

• she has "fits" of withdrawal from morphine

Dolphus Raymond

• a white man who has mixed children

• drinks Coca-Cola out of a paper bag but everyone thinks it is alcohol (gives them an excuse for his "behavior")

Mayella Ewell

• accuses Tom Robinson of raping her

• lives in a dump but has pretty red geraniums

• thinks Atticus is making fun of her when he calls her ma'am

Bob Ewell

• town drunk who uses his relief checks on alcohol instead of caring for his children

• accuses Tom Robinson of raping his daughter

• attacks Jem and Scout

• killed by Boo Radley

Burris Ewell

• has "cooties" (lice)

• makes Miss Caroline cry

• only goes to school on the first day

Nathan Radley

• Boo's brother who keeps him in the house and fills up the tree hole where the kids had been getting presents

Boo Radley

• town "phantom" that is rarely seen

• his real name is Arthur Radley

• puts a blanket around Scout the night of the fire

• the kids play a game where they act out his story

• supposedly stabbed his father in the leg with scissors

• saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell by killing him

Mr. Cunningham

• pays for Atticus' services with nuts instead of money

• Scout talks to him about his son which diffuses the situation with the mob at the jail

Walter Cunningham

• Scout rubbed his nose in the dirt on the first day of school for getting her in trouble

• he comes to their house for dinner and pours syrup all over his food

Mr. Underwood

• was guarding the jail with a shotgun

• wrote an editorial in the newspaper about how Tom Robinson's death was like the "senseless slaughter of songbirds"

Miss Caroline

Scout's first grade teacher who doesn't want her to read with Atticus anymore

• swatted Scout with a ruler for telling her she was "shaming" Walter Cunningham

Setting

Maycomb, Alabama, 1930s

Time Period

The Great Depression

Reason for Cal's anger at Scout at the lunch table

Scout made fun of Walter when he put syrup on his food

Atticus's general advice to his children when it comes to understanding other people

1. To walk a mile in their shoes

2. To get inside their skin and walk around in it

3. To see things from their points of view

Items found in the tree

gum, pennies, spelling medal, ball of string, old watch

Sound Scout hears when she rolls up to the Radley yard in the tire

someone laughing

At first, Jem is disappointed in Atticus because he won't play ___________, but then he finds out he's the best ________ in Maycomb County.

football; shot

Point of view of the novel

First person

Narrator of the novel

Scout

How does Atticus convince Scout to keep going to school?

He tells her they will still read together every night.

How do the kids try to communicate with Boo Radley?

A note at the end of a fishing pole that they put up to the window

What happens to Jem's pants?

The children have to run when Nathan Radley comes out of his house shooting. When they run under the fence, Jem loses his pants.

What is different about Jem's pants when he goes back to get them later that night?

They are sewn up and folded across the fence

(Boo did it)

Why does Nathan Radley say he is filling the knot-hole?

He says the tree is dying.

We know that it is real because he does not want Boo giving the kids presents anymore.

What reason does Atticus give the kids for defending Tom Robinson?

He says he wouldn't be able to tell them what to do anymore if he didn't

What is Maycomb's usual disease?

how people "go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up"

Why is it a sin to kill mockingbirds?

They "don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy"

Why does Calpurnia say she acts and talks differently when she is around African-Americans than when she is around white people?

She says it would be "out of place" for her to talk like white people at church. She doesn't want to seem like she's "puttin' on airs"

What does Atticus say every mob is made up of?

people you know

Based on Tom's story about what happened that day, what can we assume about how Mayella feels about him?

She has a crush on him

Based on Mayella's testimony, what can we assume about her relationship with her father?

He is abusive

Atticus

"Thank you for my children, Arthur."

Dolphus Raymond

"Secretly, Miss Finch, I'm not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live."

Atticus

"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

Scout

"Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?"

Atticus

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

Heck Tate

"… there's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em."

Scout

"Hey, Boo."

Dolphus Raymond

"Cry about the simple hell people give other people - without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too."

Jem

"I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time…it's because he wants to stay inside."

Heck Tate

"I may not be much, Mr. Finch, but I'm still sheriff of Maycomb County and Bob Ewell fell on his knife."