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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Notes for Final Test

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Characters by Description

Atticus Finch … he wore glasses. He was nearly blind in

his left eye… … he never went hunting, he did not play

poker or fish or smoke. He sat in the living room and read.

Jem Finch … stayed moody and silent for a week.

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Characters by Description

Scout (Jean Louis) Finch Her use of bathroom invective leaves

nothing to the imagination. But she doesn’t know the meaning of half she says…

Calpurnia …her hand was wide as a bed slat and

twice as hard. …led a modest double life…

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Characters by Description

Dill He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his

shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duck-fluff.

Boo Radley …a malevolent phantom. …sickly white hands that had never seen

the sun.

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Characters by Description

Miss Maudie …a chameleon lady who worked in her

flower beds in an old straw hat and men’s coveralls…

Tom Robinson His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter

than his right, and hung dead at his side.

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Characters by Description

Bob Ewell …a little bantam cock of a man…the back

of his neck reddening at the sound of his name.

Mayella Ewell …must have been the loneliest person in

the world…even lonelier than Boo Radley…

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Characters by Description

Mrs. Dubose Her face was the color or a dirty pillowcase,

and the corners of her mouth glistened with wet…

…plain hell.

Miss Stephanie …a neighborhood scold…(who relates a

gossipy story about Boo driving his scissors into Mr. Radley’s leg).

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Characters by Description

Miss Caroline She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks,

and wore crimson fingernail polish.

Aunt Alexandra …she had a river-boat, boarding-school

manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it…

…analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

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Characters by Description

Judge Taylor …looking like a sleepy old shark, his pilot

fish writing rapidly below in front of him.

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Setting

The doors of First Purchase Church are shut until ten dollars has been collected for Helen Robinson.

Atticus shoots the mad dog as it advances slowly up Scout and Jem’s street.

The children sit with Reverend Sykes in the Colored Balcony, which runs along three walls upstairs in the courtroom.

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Setting

Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout under the big oak tree as they walk home at night through the schoolyard.

In rainy weather the streets of Maycomb turn to red slop.

Two live oaks, one with a knot-hole, stand at the edge of the Radley Place.

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Setting

Jem whacks the to off every camellia bush in the yard outside Mrs. Dubose’s house.

Atticus sits in his office chair alone one night outside the Maycomb jail.

Finch’s Landing is the family homestead and still the home of Aunt Alexandra and her husband, Uncle Jimmy.

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Setting

The Ewell’s home is located behind the town garbage dump and is surrounded by gleanings from the dump.

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Notes

Reverend Sykes helps the children find a place to sit in the crowded courtroom.

Sheriff Tate hides Boo Radley’s involvement in Bob Ewell’s death.

Walter Cunningham’s family are poor but hard-working farmers

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Notes

Dill introduces to Scout and Jem the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

The Ewell children attend school only on the first day.

Mayella Ewell is a thick-bodied, strong built woman.

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Notes

Aunt Alexandra is concerned about Atticus’s safety and health.

Miss Caroline is angered and flustered by Scout’s ability to read.

Miss Maudie’s house burns to the ground.

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Notes

Scout asks to visit Calpurnia at her home in the Quarters, but never does.

Only a few members of the First Purchase church can read.

Uncle Jack scolds Scout when she fights with Cousin Francis.

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Notes

The Missionary Society ladies are prejudiced and hypocritical.

Mr. Underwood, who despises blacks, writes an editorial condemning Tom’s shooting death.

Nathan Radley fires a shotgun at the children.

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Who…? What…?

Mr. Nathan Radley Boo Radley’s older brother who cements up the

knot-hole.

Tim Johnson The mad/rabid dog

“…the deadest shot in Maycomb County.” Miss Maudie tells Scout about Atticus’s reputation

as “Ol’One-Shot” on the day he shoots Tim Johnson.

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Who…? What…?

Mr. Raymond Dolphus A white man from an old family who lives

with a black woman and has children of mixed race.

Zeebo Calpurnia’s oldest son, whom she taught to

read. Conducts the “linin’” at First Purchase. The garbage man.