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Question | Answer | undefined |
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What is the time setting for TKAM? | 1930s (1933-1935) | |
Where does the story take place? | Maycomb, Alabama | |
What world events are happening at this time? | Great Depression, Nazis taking over Germany. | |
What is the POV of the story? | First Person | |
Who is the narrator? | Scout (Jean Louise) Finch | |
Who said: "Thank you for my children, Arthur." | Atticus Finch | |
Who said: "Secretly, Miss Finch, I'm not much of a drinker, but you see they can never never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live." | Dolphus Raymond | |
Who said: "Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." | Atticus | |
Who said: "Well, it'd be sort of like shootin a mockingbird, wouldn't it?" | Scout | |
Who said: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of you--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." | Atticus | |
Who said: "...There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot em." | Heck Tate | |
Who said: "Hey, Boo." | Scout | |
Who said: "Cry about the simple hell people did other people - without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they are people, too." | Dolphus Raymond | |
Who said: "I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time...it's because he wants to stay inside." | Jem | |
Who said: "I may not be much, Mr Finch, but I'm still sheriff of Maycomb County and Bob Ewell fell on his knife." | Heck Tate | |
Who said: "The way that man called him 'boy' all the time in sneered at him...Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that--it just makes me sick." | Dill | |
Who said: "As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men everyday of your life, but let me tell you something, and don't you forget - whenever a white men does that to a black man, no matter who it is, that white man is trash" (SHORTENED) | Atticus | |
Who said: "I tell you there are some good but misguided people in this town...Folks in this town who think they're doing right, I mean." | Miss Merriweather | |
Who said: "There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off." | Dill | |
Who said: "I don't know but they did it they have done it before and it didn't go through it again and when they do it seems that only children weep" | Atticus | |
Who said: "Mockingbirds don't do one thing to make music for us to enjoy." | Miss Maudie | |
Who said: "Whether Maycomb know that or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay man. We trust him do right. It's that simple." | Miss Maudie | |
Who Said: "Boo was our neighbor. He gave us to soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing. And it made me sad." | Scout | |
Who said: "Let the dead bury the dead." | Heck Tate | |
Who said: "In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson." | Atticus | |
Who said: "I felt sorry for her, she seemed to try more 'n the rest of them.รง | Tom Robinson | |
Who said: "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'." | Reverend Sykes | |
Who said: "He took advantage of me. An' if you find, fancy gentlemen ain't going to do nothing about it, then you're just a bunch of lazy, yella, stinkin cowards... | Mayella Ewell | |
Who said: Anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny... Don't let me catch you... Like you was so high and mighty." | Calpurnia | |
Who said: "Footwashing Baptist... Told me me and my flowers were going to hell." | Miss Maudie | |
Symbols: Mrs. Dubose's last Camelia to Jem | Forgiveness | |
Symbols: Mad Dog | Racism | |
Symbols: Scout's Overalls | Childhood | |
Symbols: Tom Robinson's trial and death | Racism and prejudice | |
Symbols: Character of Stoner's Boy in The Gray Ghost | Stereotypes | |
Symbols: Boo's gifts to the children in the knothole | Friendship | |
Symbols: Ladies Missionary Circle | Hypocrisy | |
Symbols: Mockingbird | Innocence | |
Symbols: Lynch mob | Racism/Hatred | |
Symbols: Mayella's geraniums | Stupidity/foolishness | |
Who is Atticus Finch? | A lawyer who defends Tom Robinson and is the father of Jem and Scout. | |
Who is Jean Louise Finch? | The narrator of the story. Goes by Scout. | |
Who is Jeremy Finch? | Scouts older brother. Goes by Jem. | |
Who is Calpurnia? | An African American woman who helps Atticus with the children. | |
Who is Aunt Alexandria? | Atticus's sister and Scout and Jem's aunt. | |
Who is Miss Maudie Atkinson? | A finch family friend who loves her garden | |
Who is Mrs. Dubose? | An older lady who has an addiction to morphine. | |
What is Bob Ewell? | ||
Who is Tom Robinson? | Young African American man who is put on trial for rape | |
Who is Mayella Ewell? | Bob ewell's eldest daughter. She has no friends. | |
Who is Charles Baker Harris? | Goes by Dill. Visits Maycomb County every summer. | |
Who is Arthur Radley? | ||
Who is Heck Tate? | He is the sheriff of Maycomb | |
It's a sin to kill what? | It's a sin to Kill a Mockingbird | |
How did Tom Robinson die? | He was shot 17 times trying to jump the Gate of the jail | |
Who attacked Jem and Scout? | Bob Ewell | |
What and Who saved Scout? | Both Scouts ham costume and Boo Radley saved Scout. | |
Who's house burned down? | Miss Maudie | |
What did Mrs.Dubose ask Jem to do? Why? | Miss Dubose ask gem to read to her for 2 weeks and unknown to Jem he was doing it to help her not think of morphine. | |
What was Arthur (Boo) Radley accused of? | Stabbing his dad | |
Theme: Tolerance of Others | Atticus is tolerant of everyone even Bob Ewell and mrs. Dubose | |
Theme: Racism/Prejudice | The treatment of Tom Robinson case the rumors about Boo | |
Theme: Hypocrisy | Miss Merriweather talks about helping other towns but won't help the Negroes | |
Theme: Clear conscience/doing the right thing | Heck Tate not putting him on the stand. Link Deas gives Helen a job | |
Theme: Friendship | Dill Jem and Scout; Boo, Jem, and Scout. | |
Theme: Maturity | Jem and Scout throughout the story | |
Theme: Courage | Atticus standing up for Tom Robinson. Jem protecting Scout. Boo for helping Jem and Scout. Tom going up against the white people and saying he feels sorry for Mayella. | |
Theme: Man's inhumanity to man | Bob Ewell to Mayella. Mayella to Tom Robinson. The rumors about Boo Radley. The Nazi treatment of Jews | |
Theme: Religion(mainly Christian) | Between the women: they are horrible to others, even when they say they're Christians | |
What was the lesson that Scout learned in the end? | People really are nice when you learn to "really see them" and look at the world through their eyes. |