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Scout |
Atticus's daughter, narrator, tomboy.loves to fight |
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Calpurnia |
Atticus's black house keeper, treats Jem and Scout like her own children, takes the children to "black church" |
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Francis |
Scout gets in a fight with, |
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Tom Robinson |
black guy that "raped" a white woman, gets shot for trying to escape from jail |
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Jem |
Atticus's son, Scout's brother, gets arms broken by Bob Ewell |
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Jack Finch |
Jem and Scout's uncle. yells at scout for fighting with Francis |
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Atticus |
the Dad, Lawyer, very understanding about others |
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Mayella Ewell |
Girl who was "raped", lied about loving Tom Robinson raping her |
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Mr. Cunningham |
a poor farmer who becomes part of the mob that is against Tom Robinson |
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Dill |
Boy who comes to visit in the summers. Wants to marry Scout |
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Bob Ewell |
Abused his daughter Mayella, and is stabbed by Boo Radley, killed in the end |
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Mrs. Dubose |
old lady that has an addiction.neighbor down the street. |
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flashback |
literary technique in which a character looks back in time to see something that happened in the past |
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setting |
Maycomb, AL, 1930's |
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Dill's lies |
whom does his lie about? |
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Boo Radley |
never comes out, kids try to get him to, Kills Bob Ewell in the ending |
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Scout's first day of school |
she gets in trouble because Walter gave her a bad impression on |
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Walter Cunningham's visit to the Finch's for breakfast |
put syrup on everything |
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Burris Ewell at school |
an unintelligent student who goes to school only the required amount of time before leaving.about one day. gets sent home for lice. dirty |
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the knot hole |
Boo put things in the knot hole like soap and a wristwatch and gum. |
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roll the tire |
scout was in the tire and jemushed her and ended up in boo's yard. |
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sneaking into the Radley backyard |
the kids get to the back porch. they see a shadow run and Mr. Radley came out and shot his rifle in the air |
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Mr. Avery |
list details |
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snowing in Maycomb |
list details and events |
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air rifles |
the kids got air rifes for christmas |
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the mockingbird |
is Tom Robinson because he doesn't do anything wrong and dill is to because of how he gets punished Boo Radley is too |
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Mrs. Dubose and courage |
jem's punishment was to read to her |
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Calpurnia's church |
all black church that jem and scout go to with cal.lady come up to them and yells at Cal for bringing jem and scout |
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the jail house visit |
Scouts comes to Atticus's rescue |
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Braxton Underwood |
explain the irony |
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the trial |
Tom is found guilty-the Ewell's lie about what happened;Tom gets convicted |
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irony |
define |
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symbolism |
showing meaning through an average, every day object, such as a mockingbird |
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trash |
What is Alexandra's definition? |
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the tea party |
Missionaries gossiping |
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Bob Ewell's death |
Attacks the kids and ends up getting stabbed by Boo Radley.stabbed in the rib |
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quote identification |
match the speaker to the quote |
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prejudice |
the jury convicts Tom, though they knew he was innocent |
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justice |
find examples of this theme |
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growing up |
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family background |
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innocence |
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courage |
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walking in someone else's shoes |
to see things from someone else's perspective |
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