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characterlist
1) Scout:
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- little girl about 6 years old
- real name Jean Louise Finch
- narrator and main character
- lives with father, Atticus and brother, Jem in Maycomb
- intelligent, confident, tomboy
- believes in goodness of people in her community
2) Atticus:
- Scout and Jem's father, widower
- lawyer, racial equality, defends Tom Robinson
- sense of justice, morality and dry humor
- wise, empathatic
- moral backbone of the novel
3) Jem:
- Jeremy Atticus Finch, four years older than Scout
- playmate and brother of Scout at the beginning
- typical American boy => football
- Scout's close companion and protector
- moves into adolescence during story
- ideals shaken by evil and injustice during trial of T.R.
4) Boo:
- Arthur Radley
- sb. who never sets foot outside his house
- dominates imaginations of Jem, Scout and Dill
- father imprisoned him in house as punishment when young
- knothole => gifts for Scout and Jem
- one of novel's "mockingbirds"
5) Dill:
- Jem and Scout summer neighbour and friend
- diminutive, confident boy with active imagination
- represents perspective of childhood innocence throughout novel
6) Bob Ewell:
- drunken, permanently unemployed member of Maycomb's poorest family
- racist => his daughter wrongful raped by T.R.
- represents dark side of South: ignorance, poverty, squalor, and hate-filled racial prejudice
7) Calpurnia:
- black cook of Finch family
- stern disciplinarian
- children's bridge between the white and black community
8) Tom Robinson:
- black sharecropper accused of rape
- family: wife and two children
- "mockingbird" of novel
9) Nathan Radley:
- Boo's older brother
- forces Boo staying in house, like father
- cuts of important element of Boo's relationship to children =>knothole
10) Mayella Ewell:
- Bob Ewell's abused. Lonely, unhappy daughter
- 19 years old
- supports father in accusing T.R. of rape
- one can pity her, because of overbearing father, but not pardon her for supporting father
11) Aunt Alexandra:
- Atticus sister
- strong willed woman, perfect Southern lady
- commitment to propriety and tradition often leads her to clash with Scout
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