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Gianna Screen English 25 cards

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  1. 1Atticus- lawyer defending Tom Robinson
    - Scout and Jem's single father
    - tells Scout they'll keep reading at night if she keeps going to school
    Atticus
  2. 2ScoutJean Louise Finch
    - tomboy who likes to fight
  3. 3Uncle JackAtticus' brother who is a doctor
    - spanks Scout for punching Francis and cussing but apologizes later when he finds out why she did it
  4. 4Aunt AlexandraAtticus' 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
    - think Atticus should let Cal go
  5. 5Francis- the Finches' cousin who Scout gets into a fight with when he calls Atticus names
  6. 6Calpurnia- the Finches' cook who is also like a second mother to the children
    - African American woman who takes them to her church
    Calpurnia
  7. 7Tom 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
  8. 8Reverend Sykes- preacher at First Purchase who sits with the kids at the trial and locks his congregation in the church until they take up enough money for the Robinson family
    - the children sit with him during the trial
  9. 9Zeebo- Calpurnia's son who leads the singing at First Purchase
  10. 10Dill- 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
    Dill
  11. 11Heck 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
  12. 12Miss 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
  13. 13Mrs. Dubose- addict who Atticus said was the bravest person he ever knew
    - Jem and Scout have to go read to her because Jem broke her flower bushes
    - she has "fits" of withdrawal from morphine
  14. 14Dolphus Raymond- white man who has mixed children
    - drinks Coca-Cola out of a paper bag but everyone thinks it's alcohol (gives them an excuse for his "behavior")
  15. 15Tim Johnson- rabid dog that Atticus shoots
  16. 16Mayella 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
  17. 17Bob 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
  18. 18Burris Ewell- has "cooties" (lice)
    - makes Miss Caroline cry
    - only goes to school on the first day
  19. 19Nathan Radley- Boo's brother who keeps him in the house and fills up the tree hole where the kids had been getting presents
  20. 20Boo 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
  21. 21Mr. Walter 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
  22. 22Walter 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
  23. 23Mr. 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"
  24. 24Miss CarolineScout'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
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Flashcards on TKAM, created by Gianna Screen on 09/06/2018.
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Gianna Screen · Jun 2018
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