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