REGENTS REVIEW

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – HARPER LEE• Characters:

• Scout and Jem Finch – Children of Atticus

• Boo Radley – Town’s outcast

• Tom Robinson – Black man wrongly accused.

• Atticus – Morally responsible man.

• Bob Ewell - Racist

• Mayella Ewell – Rape Victim?

• Quotes: Individual vs Society, Morals, good and evil, and racism.

ANIMAL FARM - ORWELL

• Napoleon – Evil Leader

• Snowball – Flees Farm

• Boxer – Worker (Working Class)

• Squealer – Evil Leader

• OLD MAJOR – Visionary

• Mr. Jones – Drunk farmer

• Quotes: Society, exposes working class, conflict.

ROMEO AND JULIET - SHAKESPEARE

• Juliet Capulet

• Romeo Montague

• Nurse – Go between

• Friar Lawrence – Go between

• Mercutio – Bad Conscience

• Tybalt – Juliet’s cousin

• Benvolio – Good Conscience

• Quotes: Individual vs Society, flawed characters, conflict, love, lies.

451 – BRADBURY:

• Guy Montag – Quest to save his society from censorship.

•Mildred Montag - Wife

• Clarisse – Awakens Montag to revolution.

• Captain Beatty – Hates books and people who read them.

• Quotes – Individual vs Society, Awakening, Conflict.

LORD OF THE FLIES - GOLDING:

• Ralph – Good Guy

• Jack – Evil Guy

• Piggy – Glasses

• Beast – Inner Evil

• Simon – Well he died…

• Conch symbol of authority

• Quotes: Dark, violent, pessimistic, tragic, unsparing and loss of innocence. Conflict quotes.

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE – SALINGER:

• Holden Caulfield – Young man, troubled.

• Phoebe Caulfield - Younger sister, Holden wants to save her.

• Allie Caulfield – Died of Leukemia, source of innocence for Holden.

• Jane Gallagher – Holden’s friend.

• Sunny – Prostitute

• Hunting Hat – Symbol

• Quotes: cynicism, bitterness, and nostalgia, innocence, conflict, past.

OF MICE AND MEN – STEINBECK:

• George – Father figure to Lenny – Migrant Worker

• Lennie – Mentally Disabled – Migrant Worker

• Curly – Boss, short man syndrome

• Curly’s Wife – no name, no importance

• Crooks

• Candy – Dog Died

Quotes – Dreams, Friendship, Moral Conflict, Goals.

THE GREAT GATSBY – FITZGERALD:

• Daisy – Gatsby’s Love Interest

• Nick – Narrator cares about values

• Gatsby – Appearances vs. Reality

• Tom – Arrogant

• Myrtle – Tom’s Mistress

• Wilson – Myrtle’s Husband

• Setting – see chart.

• Quotes: Love, Loss, Conflict, TRAGEDY, Past, Nostalgia

THE CRUCIBLE –MILLER

• John Proctor – Righteous, Characterized as a tragic hero – common man.

• Elizabeth Proctor – Falsely Accused, upset about betrayal.

• Abigail Williams – Manipulative, ring leader, liar.

• Rev Hale – Dynamic character

• HYSTERIA IN SALEM – SALEM WITCH TRIALS

• Stories/accusations were ridiculous leads into hysteria.

Quotes: Lies, dark, tragedy, righteous beliefs, hysteria, conflict, betrayal.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN – MILLER

• Willy Loman – Tragic Hero, Common Man

• Biff Loman – Son, idolized son of Willy, failure, steals.

• Happy Loman – Son, forgotton son of Willy, failure, cheats.

• Linda Loman – Glue that holds everyone together, patient, kind.

• Inability to achieve American dream.

• Quotes: Success, American dream, betrayal, lies, society vs. individual, families, relationships, failure.

POEM TYPES:

• Free Verse – poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

• Sonnet – A sonnet consists of fourteen lines, where the overall rhyme scheme is ABAB

• Blank Verse – A blank verse is a poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter. This means it consists of lines of five feet, each foot being iambic, meaning two syllables long, one stressed followed by an unstressed.

• Couplet – Couplets usually comprise two lines that rhyme and have the same metre.

Notice rhyme scheme, couplets, imagery, structure