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TKAM Characters (obscure facts)

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Miss Maudie
- strong sense of morality
- became friends with Scout when she showed Scout her false teeth
- treats everyone with respect
Calpurnia
- leads a "double life" through code switching
Mrs. Dubose
- courageous morphine addict
- rumored to have a CSA pistol in her shawls
Mr. Dolphus Raymond
- Wealthy, white man
- Has black white and mixed children
- Believed to be drunk but actually drinks Coca-cola--gives people a reason why he lives like how he does
Mayella
- "He took advantage of me. An' if you fine, fancy gentlemen ain't gonna do nothin' about it, then you're just a bunch of lousy, yella, stinkin' cowards..."
- breaks a rigid social code
Uncle Jack
- never wants to have children because of the lesson Scout taught him
Mr. Underwood
- was guarding the jail with a shotgun
- wrote an editorial in the newspaper about how Tom Robinson's death was like the "senseless slaughter of songbirds"
Mr. Avery
- peeing off porch
- believes children cause bad weather
- bravely fights Miss Maudie's fire
Heck Tate
- protects Boo from attention and legal issues by lying that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife
Mr. Radley
- locked Boo in the basement
Nathan Radley
- fills up the knothole
Reverend Sykes
- preoccupied with sin
- preacher at Calpurnia's church
- allows Scout and Jem to sit with him for Tom Robinson's trial
- collects money for Helen
Walter
- extremely poor
- Scout explained his situation
- clean
Mr. Cunningham
- pays for Atticus' services with nuts instead of money
- Scout talks to him about his son which diffuses the situation with the mob at the jail and earns his respect
- once you earned their respect they were for you tooth and nail
Miss Stephanie Crawford
- interested in Miss Maudie's cake recipe
- gossip
Miss Rachel Haverford
- Dill's aunt
- Finches' neighbor
- hates strip poker/gambling
Mr. Gilmer
- the prosecuting attorney in Tom's case
- treats Tom rudely
Mrs. Grace Merriweather
- devout methodist
- writes Halloween pageant
- shocked by the "sin and squalor" that African tribes live in
- disregards discrimination in Maycomb
- tells her servant to stop sulking
Link Deas
- Tom's employer that stood up for him at the trial and was thrown out
- protected Helen Robinson from Bob Ewell
Miss Caroline
- Scout's first grade teacher
- doesn't like Scout's advanced literacy
- Jem had a crush on her
- from Winston County
Miss Gates
- Scout's third grade teacher
- hates Hitler and believes America has no prejudice because of democracy
- believes black community got what they deserved
Francis
- Scout's cousin
- tests Scout's willingness to obey Atticus by not fighting
- Scout fights him and she gets in trouble
Cecil Jacobs
- a boy, who is racist and against what Atticus was doing for Tom Robinson
- scares Scout and Jem on their way to Halloween festival
- Scout refused to fight him (first time)
Little Chuck Little
- born gentleman
- scares Burris Ewell
Zeebo
- Calpurnia's son
- garbage collector
- can read and write
- leads the black church
Burris Ewell
- makes Miss Caroline cry
- only goes to school on the first day
- has lice
Lula
- black lady who was upset to see Scout and Jem at her church
Simon Finch
- Atticus' ancestor-founded Finch's Landing
Jessie
- Mrs. Dubose's nurse
Helen Robinson
- Tom's wife
- hard time finding jobs
Eula May
- telephone operator
Dr. Reynolds
- Scout and Jem's doctor
Mrs. Crenshaw
- local seamstress
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