To Kill a Mockingbird Plot Questions – Flashcards

Atticus Finch- Jem and Scout's father, a lawyer and a widower Scout- aka Jean Louise Finch, a tomboy who never met her mother; very intelligent Jem Finch-Scout's brother, teaches her a lot about his perpsective in life, and he loses his innocence thorughout the book Maycomb- a sleepy southern town in Alabama that has a prejudice against black people Calpurnia- The Finch's black housekeeper that has helped Atticus raise his kids every since Scout and Jem's mother died Charles Baker (Dill) Harris- a small kid for his age from meridian who comes to Maycomb every summer. Dill is a daydreamer, his aunt is Miss Rachel, and he was the one who came up with the Boo Radley game. Dill is sickened by people's prejudices The Radley Place- the prison of Boo Radley, the Radley Plave is very mysterious to Scout, Jem, and Dill Stephanie Crawford- the town gossip Arthur (Boo) Radley- compared to a mockingbird bc he has done only good to society, but he is persecuted despite that. Boo Radley has been confined to his home since he was a boy, and is a loner. Miss Caroline Fisher- Scout's first teacher, who puts Scout in trouble for trying to explain the Cunninghams and the Ewells, and for knowing how to read. Walter Cunningham- a poor farmer from the Old Sarum Gang, who almost lynches Tom Robinson because of his "blind Spot" Walter Cunningham is then made to change his ways because of Scout, and has great respect for the Finches/ Burris Ewell- a man with nine kids who have no mother, and lives off tof the county welfare check and spends it on alcohol. He beats his children, and tries to kill Scout and Jem because he lost face at the trial that their father was a lawyer at.

Dill dared Jem to touch the Radley house, because he said that Jem was a scaredy cat

Her first "crime" was knowing how to read and write, and this wasn't a real problem because it just showed that Scout was a smarty pants.

that Scout could read and write because she made Scout copy down the Bible

She aws angry at him for getting her in trouble with miss Caroline Fisher, because she tried to explain that the Cunninghams were too poor to pay for lunch.

She said that because the rest of Maycomb considered the Cunninghams trash, so she was being influenced. She didn't consider Walter as real company. Cal's response was to say that anybody who came to Scout's hoseu was company, no matter where they came from. She was also very angry

First she tries to give Walter Cunningham money to pay back later, that he couldn't pay back because he was too poor, and then she tried to tell Burris Ewell what to do, not knowing that the Ewells were trash.

they didn't have to go to school because no one could make them, and the truant lady figured that she had done her job just by making them go to the first day of school.

They found gum, two pennies, a watch, twine, and two carved soap figures of themselves

The old lady taht lived a couple houses down, and she enjoyed harrassing jem and Scout as they passed her every day on their way to school

He rolled her in a tire into the Radley's front porch

A game pretending to be Boo Radley and making up his adventures

She was a lady on their street that liked gardening, and tried to be a kind of mother for jem and Scout. She shared a lot of Atticus's views and opinions.

She thinks that Boo Radley doesn't want to get out of his house, and that the Radleys are foot-washing Baptists (very observant)

They want to ask him what he does i his house all day, and they want to make him feel better about staying indoors for so many years. Atticus told them to stop tormenting Boo Radley, that what they were doing was infringing on his privacy, and not to get near the Radley house ever again.

He got caught under the fence when he ran away from Boo Radley's house, so he had to pull them off in order to get through. He found them nice and stitched up and folded on the fence when he came back for them.

Mr. Nathan Radley plugged the hole up with cement because he said the tree was dead.

It burnt down, and she didn't care and was actually kind of happy because she hated being indoors so much, she just liked her garden.

He was a boy who made fun of Scout at school because he said that Atticus defended black people and got into a fight with her.

Scout and Francis got into a fight because Francis put down Atticus.

Scout taught him to always listen to both sides of the story, and Atticus taught him to always tell children the truth, because they can always spot evasions and those only muddle them.

He shoots Tim Johnson the dog, and Jem and Scout are shocked, because they thought he was too old to do anything.

Jem uprooted all of her floewrs and vandalized her front yard

He had to read to Mrs. Dubose every day

He learned taht bravery isn't a man with a gun in his hand, but a person who will see something through no matter what, despite the fact that they know that they have lost the battle even before they have begun.

He becomes difficult to live with, inconsistent, and moody.

Lula- a lady at the colored church who likes to make trouble Zeebo- Calpurnia's son Rev. Sykes- the reverend at the colored church

Calpurnia leads a double life- with the Finches, she has better grammar and is more proper, and with the balck people she talks and acts like them.

Aunt Alexandra had, to teach them how to be proper, to mother them, etc.

Aunt Alexandra believed in a lot of the same things as Maycomb (about ways to behave, etc.) but she didn't believe in the things that Jem and Scout liked.

Alexandra wants to fire Calpurnia and not let Scout run around, but Atticus said that Calpurnia helped raise Jem and Scout and he couldn't have done it without her, and puts his foot down.

Jem and Scout are getting farther apart because Jem is getting older and moodier, so he doesn't like being with younger children so much anymore. This leaves Scout hurt and confused.

He felt like his mother and stepfather didn't want him and he was just imposing himself on them.

They wanted to warn Atticus that he might be in danger for defending Tom Robinson.

Their purpose was to try and lynch Tom Robinson for "raping" Mayella Ewell because they were racist against black people.

Mr. Dolphus Raymond was a man who pretended to be the town drunk to give people a reason why he was so strange by marrying a black women and hanging out with them.

Tom Robinson- a black gentlman and father who was wrongly accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Mr. Gilmer- the prosecuting attorney against Tom Robinson who spoke to Tom rudely because he was black Bob Ewell- a man that didn't have a job but had many children and no wife, who spent his welfare check on alcohol instead of food. He was easily angered and very racist against black people, and framed Tom Robinson Mayella Ewell- a girl who accused Tom Robinson of raping her, when actually she wanted to get rid of the evidence that she had kissed a black man Judge Taylor- the Judge that judged Tom Robinson's court case- he was fair to black people and chose Atticus as the defendant because he knew that Atticus would try and be fair

They showed that her attacker was left-handed, like Bob Ewell

She said that she asked him to chop up a chiffarobe, and then he jumped her from behind and choked her while she screamed and struggled, and then he raped her.

He said that this didn't even happen recently, that he had chopped up a chiffarobe last year, and that he helped Miss Mayella often. Last year, he had done to chop it up but Mayella came onto him and kissed him, and Bob Ewell caught them so he ran away.

He had a shriveled and crippled arm, which meant that he couldn't have choked Mayella and made the hand-print bruises around her neck.

That people aren't always what they seem.

He said to put all of their biases aside and judge the case fairly, so that their ruling might be fair and true.

They pronounced Tom guilty.

He cried because it wasn't fair that the Tom should be convicted of something he didn't do, and the jruy knew he didn't do this and yet they still sentenced him to death.

A garden

It showed that Jem was growing up.

He spat in Atticus' face and said he would kill him, but Atticus just wiped his face off and started to walk away. Bob Ewell aske dif Atticus was too scared to fight, and Atticus said "No, too old."

According to Alexandra, Walter was "trash".

Because Jem is having a hard time dealing with the confusion of life, so he thinks Boo Radley is trying to avoid that.

She doesn't really believe that they are real people, and she doesn't think that they have a right to complain. It shows that she is racist.

He went crazy and lost hope and tried to run away, so he was shot seventeen times and killed.

That she cares about her brother, and that she's not quite so hard-shelled as she wants you to think.

He said it was a sing to kill cripples, and compared it to the senseless slaughtering of songbirds by hunters and children.

She fantasized that he was like one of the normal neighbors that she talked to all the time.

Miss Gates said that "it's time to teach the blacks a lesson". This is different from the other quote because in there she is mad at Hitler for being racist but in the courthouse she is racist against black people. This tells me that she is a hypocrite because she did exactly what she was at angry at Hitler for.

They were angry that he had appointed Atticus who would actually try to defend a black person.

She was harassed by Bob Ewell, because he was angry that he didn't win the trial with respect.

She was a pork

They were embarrassed about Scout's mess-up at the play.

Cecil Jones scared them, Scout left her shoes at the school, and Bob Ewell attacked Jem and Scout.

Boo Radley

He didn't want shy Boo Radley to be dragged into the limelight.

She didn't want Boo to be embarrassed to be led across the street by an eight-year-old. He wanted him to seem to be in charge.

It shows how Scout has matured since the beginning of the book.