TKAM: Characters

Scout

Jem

Dill

first person narrative

tom boy

innocent

can empathise

leads Boo back to the house so that it seems as though she is being escorted

not prejudiced

"Just a Negro"

She cannot understand her teacher's racist attitude to the blacks, when she (the teacher) is so critical of Hitler's treatment of Jews.

She is genuinely interested in going to Calpurnia's house

Aunt Alexandra

forbids Scout to go to Calpernia's house

Atticus

attempts to get Jem and Scout to empathise with people

hates the racism in Maycomb

"Maycomb's usual disease"

Courage

takes the Robinson case even though he knows he will loose

"Its a sin to kill a mockingbird "

Ewells

the reason for the court case which leads the reader to understand how the people of Maycomb

"I maintain that the Ewells started it all Attcus said the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations"

Calpurnia

motherly, helps to raise the children

mould's scout's opinions

Boo Radley

treated with predjudice/ misunderstood

"malevolant phantom"

a kind man, saves their lives

"by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl"

Scout learns valuable morals

you never really know a man "until you climb into his skin and walk around in it"

Miss Rachael's nephew