Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

To Kill a Mockingbird

1960

Harper Lee

April 28, 1926–

Notes

68  morphodite: a comic mispronunciation of hermaphrodite

Study Questions for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

Some things to think about as you read and reread.

Review Sheet

Characters

Scout, Jean Louise Finch –  

Jem,  Jeremy Atticus Finch – (7)

Atticus Finch – father of Scout and Jem; "nearly fifty" (89); "wore glasses" (89); "nearly blind in his left eye" (89)

Uncle Jack –  

Aunt Alexandra – Atticus's sister (77); 

Henry – Aunt Alexandra and Uncle Jimmy's son (77); father of Francis (77)

Francis Hancock –  

Uncle Jimmy – Aunt Alexandra's husband (77); 

Simon Finch –  

Calpurnia – the Finches' cook (6)

Dill, Charles Baker Harris – comes from Meridian, Mississippi (7)

Miss Maudie Atkinson – (199)

Miss Stephanie Crawford – (199)

Boo, Arthur Radley – ()

Mrs. Dubose – Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose (99); 

Tom Robinson, Thomas Robinson – twenty-five years old (190); husband of x; has three children (190); 

Helen Robinson – Tom Robinson's wife

Bob Ewell, Robert E. Lee Ewell – father of Mayella; "a little bantam cock of a man" (169–70), "his face was as red as his neck" (170), 

Mayella Violet Ewell – (178); daughter of Bob Ewell; "nineteen-and-a-half" years old (179); the eldest of eight children (182)

Mr. Heck Tate – sheriff of Maycomb County; "goin' on forty-three years old" (276); usually wears "high boots, lumber jacket, and bullet-studded belt" (166)

Judge Taylor – "looking like a sleepy old shark" (164–65), "white-haired, slightly ruddy-faced" (165), "ran his court with an alarming informality" (165)

Walter Cunningham (son) –  

Walter Cunningham (father) –

Braxton Bragg Underwood – (156)

Mr. Dolphous Raymond – 

Reverend Sykes – (164)

Miss Caroline Fisher – Scout's teacher when she first began school (16); comes from Winston County in North Alabama (16)

Miss Rachel – Dill's aunt (7)

Cecil Jacobs – "announced in the schoolyard...that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers" (74)

Mr. Gilmer – solicitor (166)

Mr. Link Deas – (221)

Setting

Maycomb County –  

Finch's Landing –  

Plot

Sample Student Reading Responses to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

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Reference

Lee, Harper.  To Kill a Mockingbird.  1960.  New York: Warner Books, 1982.

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