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Scout

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Protagonist, tomboy, narrator, intelligent, curious

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Atticus

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Scout, Jem’s father, lawyer, widower, dry sense of humour, nice, hero

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Jem’s

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Polite, typical southern boy, intelligent, friends with Dill

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Arthur Radley

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Never leaves his house, mysterious, people make rumours (he tried to stab his dad allegedly), one of the novel’s mockingbird (good and innocent person hurt by the evil of mankind)

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Calpurnia

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Nanny of Scout and Jem, black, stern, takes kids to black church

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Dill

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Jem and Scout’s friend, only comes in the Summer, imaginative and weird kid, helps Jem and Scout see Boo, likes Scout, represents childhood innocence

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Aunt Alexandria

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Atticus’s sister, teaches Scout how to be a “lady”, perfect southern lady, not very liked by Jem and Scout when she first arrives

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Mayella Ewell

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White, abused by her father (Bob Ewell), wrongly accuses Tom Robinson of rape, has many siblings, lonely, and unhappy

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Bob Ewell

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Drunk, abuses Mayella, member of Maycomb’s poorest and least respected family, dies, attacts Scout and Jem

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Mr. Walter Cunningham

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Poor farmer, has a son, part of mob that tries to lynch Tom

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Walter Cunningham

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Son of Sr., Scouts classmate, Scout fights him, Jem tells her to stop and invites him over for dinner

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Tom Robinson

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The black worker accused of rape, innocent, Atticus defends him, dies in jail at end of novel (Shot by guards), symbol of a mockingbird (somebody that is innocent and good but is destroyed by the evil of mankind

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Theme: Good vs Evil

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Moral nature of human beings (Whether people are good or evil)

  • dramatizing scout and jem’s childhood innocence perspective to an adult perspective where they see more evil and must learn it more
  • tom robinson
  • boo radley
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Theme: Moral Education

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Scout and Jem learn more about morals rather than academic story in the story.

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Theme: Social Inequality

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Finches near top of social ladder, most of townspeople beneath them, Cunningham’s below, Ewell’s even lower. Black people even below Ewell’s.

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Theme: Racism

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Many people in Maycomb are very racist see black community below Ewell’s.

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Theme: Coming of age/growing up

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Plotline follows Scout and the way she grows up. Scout is a child and matures and takes Atticus’s moral ideas by the end of the novel.

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Life Lessons from TKAM

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  • Put yourself into other shoes
  • Never judge a book by its cover
  • Atticus never sugar coated stuff
  • Don’t destroy what is beautiful (Atticus taught his kids to never kill a Mockingbird)
  • Never lose your respect for others
  • People are people
  • Courage is not physical, but also mental
  • Part of growing up is learning about society but not necessarily accepting it