To kill A Mockingbird- Characters

To kill A Mockingbird- Characters

1. Atticus Finch

   • Consistent
     • 'Atticus is the same man in the town as he is in home'
   • Non Predjudiced
     • 'Calpurnia knows what she means to this family'
   • Fatherly
     • 'He read to us, played with us and treated is with courteous detcahment'
   • Honest
     • 'I wanted you to see what real courage is before you got the idea it was a man with a gun in his hand'
     • 'I couldn't worship to God if I didn't try to help that man'
     • 'It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway'

2. Jem Finch

   • Mournful
     • 'Sometimes he would go off my himself'
   • Lively
     • 'In all his life Jem had never declined a dare'
   • Imaginative
     • 'Gotta work hard now.'
   • Heroic
     • 'Jem was a born hero'
   • Growing Up
     • 'His maddening air of superiority was unbearable these days'
     • 'Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me'
     • 'I swear Jean Louise you become more like a girl every day'
   • Calming
     • 'Not too far now Scout, the roads down yonder'

3. Scout Finch

   • Lively
     • 'His face killed my joy. I had burst into a circle of strangers'
   • Honest
     • 'He was the filthiest human I had ever seen'
   • Thoughtful
     • 'Standing on the Radley Porch was enough'
   • Passionate
   • Naive
     • 'Atticus! The worlds ending'
   • Intelligent
     • 'Scout yonder been reading since she was born'
   • Brutal
     • 'Rubbed his nose in the dirt'

4. Boo Radley

   • Misunderstood
   • Violent
     • 'Hands stained red from the blood'
   • Discriminated
     • 'It's a sin to Kill a Mockingbird'
     • Malevolent Phantom
   • Friendly
     • Chewing gum, spelling medal, watch, sculptures
     • 'Someone inside the house was laughing'

5. Mayella Ewell

   • She looks after her siblings alone
   • She craves any sort of affection, even from someone that is considered ot be lower class than her.
   • 'That's right nice of you saving up money to treat the chillun'

6. Calpurnia

   • 'Calpurnia knows what she means to this family'
   • 'I felt Calpurnia's tyrannical presence'
   • 'It was Calpurnia's fault.' She taught Scout how to read and write
   • Literate and Clever
     • She immediately rings Atticus about the mad dog
     • She teaches Scout how to read and write
     • She is the only one at the church that can read

7. Bob Ewell

   • Abuses his family
   • Cares about his social status
     • Spits on Atticus
     • Takes it out on Atticus' children
   • Does not care about his family
     • 'Screamed like a hog'

8. Dill

   • ''Summer was Dill'
   • 'Dill breathed his patient breath'
   • 'The Radley place drew Dill like the moon drew water, but only to the light pole c=across the road.'
   • 'It started when Dill gave us the idea of trying to make Boo Radley come out.'

9. Aunt Alexandra

   • 'The first thing she said was "put my bags in my room Calpurnia'
   • 'Every angle of her was formidable'
   • She tries to bring up Scout in a way in which she and society perceives young women., she does this by trying to get Scout to stop being boistrous and to start wearing dresses.