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| Scout / Jean Louise Finch |
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Scout is a tomboy
She loves to read
Jean is somewhat "innocent" in a sense
Scout is a bit care free
She is ignorant in manners and etiquette |
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| Jem / Jeremy Atticus Finch |
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Jem is a Caring brother
He is somewhat smug
Jem is knowledgeable comparative to Scout |
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Visits Maycomb every summer
Stays with his aunt
Leaves with Boo Radly |
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Cal
The african-american housekeeper
Really important figure in Scout's life
She's one of few of the black characters in the book
She has a child of her own |
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Walter is almost 10 years old and is still in first grade
On his first day back to first grade he did not have shoes or a lunch
In Scout's class
He's too poor to pay off a $0.25 debt |
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Believed to be a horrible person
He went to trial as a young teen
Lonely man that tries to reach out to Jem and Scout for a friendship |
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Lawyer for town of Maycomb
Father of Jem and Scout
Treats children as if they are adults, treats whole town as if everyone were adults |
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| You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. |
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| Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird |
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| Scout, Jem, and Dill become fascinated with their mysterious neighbor Boo Radley and have an escalating series of encounters with him. Meanwhile, Atticus is assigned to defend a black man, Tom Robinson against the spurious rape charges Bob Ewell has brought against him. Watching the trial, Scout, and especially Jem, cannot understand how a jury could possibly convict Tom Robinson based on the Ewells' clearly fabricated story. |
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| Despite Atticus's capable and impassioned defense, the jury finds Tom Robinson guilty. The verdict forces Scout and Jem to confront the fact that the morals Atticus has taught them cannot always be reconciled with the reality of the world and the evils of human nature. |
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| When word spreads that Tom Robinson has been shot while trying to escape from prison, Jem struggles to come to terms with the injustice of the trial and of Tom Robinson's fate. After making a variety of threats against Atticus and others connected with the trial, Bob Ewell assaults Scout and Jem as they walk home one night, but Boo Radley saves the children and fatally stabs Ewell. The sheriff, knowing that Boo, like Tom Robinson, would be misunderstood and likely convicted in a trial, protects Boo by saying that Ewell tripped and fell on his own knife. After sitting and talking with Scout briefly, Boo retreats into his house, and Scout never sees him again. |
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| The coexistence of good and evil; the importance of moral education; social class |
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| The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience |
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| Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing |
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| I think there's just one type of folks. Folks. |
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| Sometimes the Bible in hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of-oh, your father |
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| Before I can live with other folks I got to live with myself |
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| It was times like these when i thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived |
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| When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sakes. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot evasion quicker than adults |
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| here's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible |
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| Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird |
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| Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win |
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| Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts |
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| I asked him to pass the damn ham, please |
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| I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year |
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| One time Atticus said you never really knew a man until you stood in his shoes and walked around in them |
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| Atticus says you can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't |
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| People in their right minds never take pride in their talents |
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| Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple |
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| Our daddy's a friend of your daddy's. Scout here, she's crazy-she won't fight you any more |
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