TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD CHARACTERS PROTAGONIST HOW TO
She learned how to read and speak correct formal English from the white people she has worked for. Scout perceives Calpurnia as a tyrant because she always prevails on stubborn Scout to do as she is instructed.Ĭalpurnia has worked for the Finches for many decades. Atticus is the voice of conscience, reason, and morality in To Kill a Mockingbird.Ĭalpurnia is a black woman who works for Atticus Finch as housekeeper, chef, and babysitter. His reputation corresponds with his personality as there is no form of duplicity in his life. Asides from learning of the power of a child’s courage from Scout, his character remains mostly consistent throughout the novel. He is calm, polite, and always appears unperturbed. He is a great marksman with a gun but stopped hunting and shooting because he believes his shooting accuracy is an unfair advantage. He descends from a well-respected local family but does not follow the conventions of society. He raises his children with an unconventional parenting style-allowing them to call him by his first name, answering their questions frankly, instilling morals, kindness, and equal love for humanity in them, yet giving them room to have an individuality of judgment. He is among the few people in the county that believe in racial equality. In his childish way, he promises to marry Scout and make babies with her.ĭill resolves to become a clown when he grows up to laugh at the world for the foolishness of its injustice.Ītticus Finch is Scout and Jem’s widowed father. He also gets to experience the racial discrimination in the society and it breaks him down into tears, casting him as a soft-hearted boy. After making up so many lies about his father, he eventually gets to meet his father but runs away from his father’s home because he feels unloved and unwanted by his father. His imagination intensifies his interest in Boo Radley as a phantom and he always comes up with daring tasks to get them to see Boo Radley. He formulates tales in his imagination and passes them off as the truth. He is a motherless child who is passed from one relative to another to be cared for. The story ends with her still being a child but becoming much wiser from the experiences of her young age.īecomes more distant from scout and becomes jaded to societyĭill is a boy who visits the neighborhood in the summer and became friends with Scout and Jem on the first of such visits.
The major development of her character is in learning that the world is not void of evil and that life can sometimes be unfair to good people.
Walter Cunningham, with her polite manners, to disperse the crowd attempting to lynch Tom Robinson at the jail. After experiencing the prim manners and forced politeness among the conventional ladies of Maycomb, Scout decides that she would not like to be a lady.Īlthough stubborn, Scout is a good kid, she loves her father Atticus, and her brother Jem, she does her best to live by everything Atticus teaches her and holds no malice or prejudice against people on the basis of race or class. Scout later begins to see the expectations around being a lady with the coming of her aunt Alexandria. But because Calpurnia is a black woman and only a domestic servant to the Finch family, her feminine influence on the children is considered inappropriate. In actuality, she has a feminine influence from their domestic worker, Calpurnia. The conventional women of Maycomb County consider her unusual in her dressing and manners and believe this is because she has no feminine influence in her life. She is direct and speaks her mind without mincing words, likes to have her way, and puts up a fight when she does not. She dresses like a boy, plays with boys, and even gets into fights with boys. She is stubborn, hot-headed, and somewhat of a tomboy. Scout’s first grade teacher, Miss Caroline takes offence to her advanced literacy level. She is very intelligent and could read way before she started school and understood vocabulary that her peers could not even imagine existed, but despite being good at reading, she does not like arithmetic. The events in To Kill a Mockingbird begin when she was six years old down to when she was almost nine years old.
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