To Kill a Mockingbird: Character List

Character List

• Harper Lee: The author links to Arthur "Boo" Radley.
• Jean Louise "Scout:" The narrator and protagonist.
  • Scout lives with her father, Atticus, her brother Jem, and their cook Calpurnia.
  • Scout is smart and believes in justice.
• Simon Finch: The ancestor who first came to America and built Finch's Landing.
• Atticus Finch: He is a lawyer and the father of Scout and Jem.
  • People respect him even if they disagree with him.
• Atticus' Wife: She died of a heart attack when the kids were young
• Jem: Scout's brother, four years her elder, acts as her protector.
  • Jem grows and matures throughout the book.
  • He learns about evil and injustice during Tom Robinson's trial..
• Calpurnia: The Finches' black cook is indispensable to the family.
  • She sets high expectations for the kids.
  • Calpurnia disciplines them and serves as a mother figure.
• Arthur "Boo" Radley: He was confined to his house for "rebellious actions" made when he was young.
  • People think he's a monster, but he is really a good guy.
  • Boo wants to have friends but has nowhere to go.
  • He is one of the book's "Mockingbirds"
• Mr. Radley: Boo Radley's strict father locked his son in the house for years for teenage misdeeds until he dies
• Mrs. Radley: Boo Radley's mother, who died of natural causes.
• Nathan Radley: Boo Radley's older brother cuts off Boo's contact with the outside world by closing the tree.
• Charles Baker Harris "Dill:" Scout and Jem's friend, who spends summers with his aunt, is fascinated by Boo Radley.
  • Dill lies frequently and claims to be engaged to Scout.
  • Dill wants to grow up to be a clown.
• Miss Rachel Haverford: Dill stays with her during the summer.
• Miss Caroline Fisher: Scout's teacher, not from Maycomb, doesn't appreciate Scout's reading ability.
• Walter Cunningham: Scout's poor classmate gets into a fight with her.
• Burus Ewell: Bob's son, attends school only on the first day before being sent home for lice.
• Bob Ewell: He is left-handed, white trash, an alcoholic who doesn't take care of his kids.
• Miss Maudie Atkinson: A widowed neighbor, bakes and gardens, is positive and becomes friends with Scout.
• Stephanie Crawford: The neighborhood gossip.
• Tom Robinson: A black man falsely accused of rape; good character, worked for Link Deas.
  • Tom Robinson's left arm is crippled from a cotton machine accident, leading to irony as its implied he committed suicided
• Uncle Jack: A doctor who punishes Scout without hearing her side of the story.
• Francis: Tells Scout that Atticus is ruining the family's reputation. He is classist and racist, leading Scout to hit him.
• Aunt Alexandra: Disapproves of Scout's upbringing and moves in when the Tom Robinson case intensifies.
  • Is very traditional
• Sheriff Heck Tate: Protects Boo Radley by concealing evidence and is a good friend of Atticus.
• Mrs. DuBose: Morphine addict who gains courage by breaking her addiction before death, teaching the kids a lesson in courage.
• Lula: A black woman who dislikes Jem and Scout at her church.
• Reverend Sykes: Calpurnia's church preacher suggests Jem and Scout leave during the rape trial.
  • Says he cannot order white people.
• Mr. Walter Cunningham: Walter Cunningham's father.
  • Scout prevents the lynching of Tom Robinson by breaking his mob mentality.
• Mayella Ewell: Bob's daughter, grew red flowers and is lonely, lies about Tom
• Mr. Gilmer: Mayella's lawyer; is super racist toward Tom.
• Dolphus Raymond: Fakes being drunk by sipping Coca-Cola from a paper bag to avoid judgment for associating with black people.
• Braxton Underwood: Newspaper owner who defends Atticus by guarding the jail.
• Cecil Jacobs: Scout's classmate, who causes her to fight after calling Atticus a racial slur.
• Miss Gates: Scout's hypocritical third-grade teacher who is prejudiced against black people.
• Judge Taylor: Fair judge who supports Atticus during Tom's trial.
• Helen Robinson: Tom Robinson's wife, faces discrimination and struggles to find work.
• Link Deas: Tom's employer who defends him and helps Helen get a job.
• Ms. Maryweather: A hypocrite who directs plays and is involved in missionary work, but does not help the black community in her town. – Mr. Avery: An unfriendly neighbor blames the children for everything.
• Zeebo: Calpurnia's son, reads, and is the garbage collector. Doctor Reynolds is the towns only doctor and is called when Jem breaks his arm.

Chapter 1

• The narrator is Jean Louise 'Scout', unreliable because she is very young but honest.
• The story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
• An introduction to the circumstances leading to Jem's broken arm.
• Atticus Finch is Scout's father, a lawyer, and the first to make a living outside of farming.
• The family consists of Atticus, Scout, Jem, and Calpurnia.
• Dill is a summer friend who stays with Miss Rachel.
• Arthur "Boo" Radley lives in the old Radley house after getting in trouble with the law and being imprisoned by his father.
• The children try to lure Boo out of his house.
• Scout hears a shutter move while playing.
• Mr. Cunningham doesn't want a government job to protect his land ownership.

Chapter 2

• Dill departs.
• It is Scout's first day of school.
• Miss Caroline dislikes that Scout can already read and write, making Scout feel guilty.
• Miss Caroline doesn't understand Maycomb's ways of life and is ineffective in her teaching.
• Miss Caroline tries to lend Walter Cunningham a quarter, but he declines because he cannot repay it.
• Scout attempts to explain Cunningham's situation. She gets punished for it.
• Miss Caroline discovers that Buris Ewell has lice and sends him home, followed by insults.
• Scout is intelligent.
• Reading comes naturally to her.
• Calpurnia taught her how to write.

Chapter 3

• Scout fights with Walter for getting her in trouble.
• Jem stops the fight and invites Walter to lunch.
• Walter puts honey all over his meal.
• Scout questions him, and Calpurnia scolds her.
• Scout tells her that she is just a Cunningham.
• Scout tells Atticus that Calpurnia doesn't like her and to fire her
• Calpurnia is on Atticus' side.
• Miss Caroline discovers that Buris Ewall has lice and sends him home.
• The Ewells only attend the first day of school because the law requires it.
• People feel so bad for the Ewels that their father is allowed to hunt out of season.
• Scout means well but is punished.
• Calpurnia apologizes when they get home.
• Scout and Atticus make a deal: she will go to school. They will keep reading.

Chapter 4

• The rest of the school year goes by uneventfully.
• Scout discovers gum in a knothole of a tree near the Radley place.
• Another day, they find two Indian pennies.
• Dill returns.
• They start recreating Boo Radley stories in their games.
• Atticus questions them about it. They lie, and Scout is scared.

Chapter 5

• Scout felt left out because Dill and Jem spent less time together.
• She begins to spend the more time with her neighbor and Miss. Maudie Atkinson.
• Scout and Jem spend less time together as Jem matures.
• Jem starts getting somewhat frustrated with Scout's immatureness and he spends more time with Dill.
• Scout spends more time with Miss Maudie and Calpurnia.
• Miss Maudie accepts Scout, enjoys gardening, sits on her rocking chair, and bakes.
• She advises Scout that Boo Radley is a good man with a harsh father.
• That he was always polite and friendly and most of the rumors are false
• She begins to think that Boo is a sad and lonely person rather than a monster.
• Jim and Dill plan to give a note to Boo inviting him to ice cream.

Chapter 6

• Atticus catches them and demands that they stop. Says Boo Radley deserves privacy.
• Jem and Dill plan to sneak into the Radley's to see through the windows.
• Scout tries to stop them, but joins them..
• They hear a shotgun discharge, and they fled.
• They escaped, but Jem's pants get stuck in the fence..
• When they got back home they found everyone gathered.
• Ms. Maudie tells them that Mr. Nathen shot a "negro" in his back yard.
• Atticus asked Jem about his pant.
• He initially lies about losing them during a strip poker game. Then, he claims he was playing with matches..
• Jem retrieves his pants later that night.
• Mr. Nathan doesn't even consider the possibility that the intruder might be white.

Chapter 7

• Jem tells Scout that he found his pants neatly folded and stitched, waiting for him.
• Later, they find twine, soap carvings, a spelling bee medal, and a pocket watch in the knothole.
• The next day the knothole was covered with cement.
• Mr. Radley claimed it was because “the tree was dying"
• The kids asked Atticus if the tree is actually dying, he told them that it doesn't look dead to him- Mr. Nathan cut boo's only way of communication
• The first sign that Boo Radley is a good guy is when he fixed Jem's pants
• Found in the tree: Gum, pennies, soap figures, medal, pocket watch

Chapter 8

• It snowed in Maycomb for the first time in years.
• Scout and Jem used Miss Maudie's snow to build a snowman that looks like Mr. Avery. Atticus demands they destroy it
• Atticus wakes up the kids in the middle of the night because Miss. MAudie's house was on fire.
• Miss. Maudie's house burned down Ms.Maudie because she left the fireplace for herplants.
• Scout was freezing and an unknown person put abalnkett around her without her knowing
• Jem later realized that it was Boo radley
• Atticus told them to return the blanket but Jem reacted badly out and told him the truth about everything, the knothole, the pants, ect. (they didn't end up returning it).
• The following morning, Ms. Maudie is not sad about her house. She didn't like her old house and is planning to build a smaller one with a bigger garden.
• She found the positive out of the negetive.
• Miss. Maudie was more nervouse about her neighbors

Chapter 9

• Scout fights Cecil Jacobs for calling Atticus an offensive slur.
• Atticus is defending Tom Robinson, accused of raping a white woman.
• Explain to Scout that he accepted the case for two reasons:
  • Judge Taylor appointed him since he was the one with more chances.
  • to uphold his sense of justice and self respect.
• The family spend Christmas in Finch's Landing. Francis is boring, is Aunt Alexandra's grandson,
• Aunt Alexandra tells Scout to be more like a lady.
• Scout fights with Francis because she called Atticus an offensive slur.
• Jack punishes scout without hearing her side of the story.
• Later Scout talks with Jack and he feels sorry.
• Scout asks Jack to not tell Atticus because she promised him she wasn't going to fight anymore.
• Scout overhears Atticuse telling Jack, Tom Robbinson is innocent but he is probably not going to win and that the trial is going to be hard on the kids.
• Atticus says Maycomb's disease is racism and doesn't want his kids to catch it.

Chapter 10

• Atticus is older than most dads
• Jack gave the kids rifles for christmas and Atticus reminds them it's illegal to kill a mockingbird because they don't bother anyone.
• A mad dog appears in the street
• Heck Tate trusts Atticus with his rifle
• If he missed the shot, it would have hit Radley's place..
• Atticus shoots the dog and the kids are surprised, Atticuse use to be the one shotting dogs
• Atticus didn't tell the kids because he doesn't like shouting and it came naturally to him
• This changes their perspective on Atticus..
• The dog with rabies Atticus kills represents racism. And foreshadowing that someone is going to die.

Chapter 11

• Mrs. Dubose is an old lady who always screams at Scout and Jem
• Mrs. Dubose calls Atticus a nigger liver and Jem loses his temper and destroys her camellia bushes
• As a punishment Jem must read to her everyday for a month. Accompanied by Scout..
• When Mrs. Dubose DIES
• Atticuse revealed she was addicted to Morphine because she had a terminal illness..
• She wanted to quit because she didn't want to be tied to anything, she achieved it..
• She screamed at them because of her mood swing of quitting
• The reading her combat her addiction
• She teaches the kids bravery

Chapter 12

• Jem is growing up
• Dill is not coming this summer
• Calpurnia takes the kids to the "colored” church
• A women named Lula l criticizes Calpurnia for bringing white kids
• Calpurnia's son Zeebo can read and leads the prayers, works as trash boy
• Reverend Sykes takes a collection for Tom Robinson's wife, Helen.
• Tom Robinson was accused by Bob Ewall, Scout thinks no one should trust the Ewalls'

Chapter 13

• Aunt Alexandra is staying with them to help during the trial and for a feminine figure..
• Aunt Alexandra doesn't like Scout's overalls
• She is very traditional and different from Atticus
• She fits in Maycomb society

Chapter 14

• Aunt Alexandra doesn't let the kids go back to calpurnia's church
• Jem and Scout fight because of aunt alexandra.
• Dill ran away from home because they didn't pay attention to him.
• Jem snitching on Dill symbolizes the end of his childhood
• Scout sees this as betrayal
• They found him hiding under Scout's bed
• Jem snitches on him but he is allowed to stay for the summer
• He sleeps with scout

Chapter 15

• Tom robinson is being moved to Maycomb jail and he can get lynched..
• At night Atticuse leaves to make sure Tom dosen't get lynch
• Jem, Scout and Dill sneak out to spy on Atticus..
• At that moment they see the group demanding Atticus move from the door but he said no
• Scout runs out of their hiding spot
• Atticus gets scared when the children get there.,
• Atticus asks them to leave Scout agrees, but Jem doesn't
• Scout spots Mr. Cunningham in the crowd and breaks his mob mentality, everyone leaves.. Mob mentality: hen people congregate together and don't think for themselves, act as a group without much personal thought
• Atticus pats jem on the head which symbolizes forgiveness.
• Ir. Underwood Protecting Atticus with a gun.(not Tom)

Chapter 16

• Everyone goes to watch the trial
• The kids sneak in the court but there is no more seats so they sit in the colored balcony with revernend sykes
• The Black people give up their seats to the kids because they are Atticus children and white.
• Scout doesn't understand racism
• The udge Taylor appears to be sleepy but he is actually super attentive and a

Chapter 17

• The Ewell's story:
  • Bob Ewell urgently called Heck Tate because had been raped and beaten
  • tticus points out no doctor was called

Chapter 18

• Mayella testimoney: She invited Tom inside to fix a door but instead of fixing that he took advantge of her

Chapter 19

• Tom testimony:
• He always passed the Ewel's house and Mayella oftenly asked him to chores
• She asked him to come inside and fix a door and then she started hugging him... His dad walked in she felt this...

Chapter 20-31

• Dolfus Raymond pretends to be drunk to avoid giving people what they want

• Atticus says Mayella id quilty of social crime

• Atticus realized that the kids were in court and told them to eat denner

• Atticus feels guilty for his actions in the court room, he feels that his actions has done the job

• people stand up to show respect for the coloured in the courtroom

• Black people gitf lots of goods

• Atticus invites over a Walter Cunningham

• Shows how mch scount has developed Aunt alexandrea reduces and says that they need to take it slow

• Aurnt Alwxandrea invites her missoinary group and they state bad since since the results

• how everyone affects very bad

• He diesbefore Atticus could take in the case

• Alttucs and catupria leave to tell the romboinsons familys

• SOm saw that has to do with suidide

• Mr underwood writes an editiral

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• Bpb ell attermots to breako judge house but get scared ad leaves

• Scout missed the play cause and jem has tro wait and the enxt day they hear people running

• he attacker gets ahold of and the man is there and they r third

• hecks state says bob is dead

• Scout is telling what is ahppenimng

• Auticius think s jem killied him adn soemones wants t stop the gossispng in her town

• Heck changes h tstory eell fel on his own knofe

• cout say to jem goodnjght Scout takes boo by the land

• kids from levitrtu s they learn about cowrrqrd mrs dubiosds

• Alexandra taokiong about bad

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