Characters

Scout

• Scout is an intelligent, mature, and tough six year old.
• Scout is smarter then the average first grader, because Atticus taught Scout how think through situations and he taught her how to read at a very young age.
• Scout is the narrator and describes how her life goes in the small town in Maycomb, Alabama.
• Scout is not the kind of person to bite on her tongue when she wants to say something. If Scout has something to say, she will never hold back to say it.
• She is no average little girl, every little girl wouldn't mind sitting and playing with their dolls, but for Scout, Scout loves adventures.
• Scout also looks at things the wrong way. When Walter couldn't afford to pay Miss Caroline when she offered a coin, Scout explained to Miss Caroline on why Dill did not take the money. She still did not understand.
• " 'Walter's one of the Cunningham's, Miss Caroline.' 'I beg your pardon, Jean Louise?' 'That's okay ma'am you'll get to know all the county folks after a while. The Cunningham's never took anything they can't pay balk- no church baskets and no scrip stamps. They never took anything off of anybody, they get along on what they have. They don't have much, but they get along on it' "(26).
• In the end Scout blamed Dill for why her and Miss Caroline ended on the wrong foot.

Jem

• Jem is Scout's older brother.
• He is very logical, and like Scout doesn't mind to get his hands dirty.
• Jem does not like to be labeled as something, even when he has his fatal injury when he was thirteen.
• "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury" (3).
• Jem is sometime's the piece keeper towards Scout. When Scout has he outbreaks of rage he is usually the one who calms he down, and makes her understand the different outlooks on the situation.

Atticus Finch

• Atticus Finch is Scout and Jem's father.
• He is also the defender of Tom Robinson.
• Atticus is firm believer in making sure his kids are raised as independent people.
• He taught Scout and Jem that if they thought it was right, they should go after it.
• When he was defending Tom, he knew he was going to lose because its a black mans word against a white womens, but he never stops trying.
• "The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box." (40)

Tom Robinson

• Tom Robinson is the client of Atticus Finch.
• He is also a black man.
• Tom Robinson is accused of abusing and raping Mayella Ewell.
• Even though he didn't do it, it's a white man word against a black mans.
• After the trial, and Atticus had proved that Mr. Ewell had lied, Tom was still found guilty, so he snuck out of jail, and while doing that was shot to death.
• Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed." (25.28)

Boo Radley

• Boo Radley is an old man that lives near Scout and Jem.
• There are many rumors about Boo, but none of them are true.
• People said that he was dead. But no one saw a coffin come out his front door.
• When Miss Maudie's house caught on fire. Scout was cold and afraid, and someone rapped a blanket around her, when Scout came home and Atticus had asked about the blanket, Scout came to the conclusion that Boo Radley came out of the house to make sure the children were safe.
• "Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time."

Calpurnia

• Calpurnia was the cook for Mrs. Finch.
• She is a colored women that helped Mr. Finch raise Scout and Jem.
• Scout many times tried to have Calpurnia fired. She always tried making Scout to be more lady like.
• "It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike—in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language." (12