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- lawyer defending Tom Robinson
- Scout and Jem's single father
- tells Scout they'll keep reading at night if she keeps going to school
Atticus
Jean Louise Finch
- tomboy who likes to fight
Scout
Atticus' brother who is a doctor
- spanks Scout for punching Francis and cussing but apologizes later when he finds out why she did it
Uncle Jack
Atticus' sister
- comes to live with the Finches to give Scout a female role model
- thinks Scout should think and act like a girl
- won't let Scout visit Cal's house
- think Atticus should let Cal go
Aunt Alexandra
- the Finches' cousin who Scout gets into a fight with when he calls Atticus names
Francis
- the Finches' cook who is also like a second mother to the children
- African American woman who takes them to her church
Calpurnia
- Black man accused of raping Mayella Ewell
- he is unable to use his left hand which would have made it quite difficult for him to attack Mayella
the way she says he did
- is shot 17 times and killed by prison guards when he tries to escape
Tom Robinson
- preacher at First Purchase who sits with the kids at the trial and locks his congregation in the church
until they take up enough money for the Robinson family
- the children sit with him during the trial
Reverend Sykes
- Calpurnia's son who leads the singing at First Purchase
Zeebo
- Charles Baker Harris
- Scout's "fiance" who is passed around from family member to family member throughout the year
- tells all sorts of crazy stories about who is daddy is
- wants to be a clown when he grows up
, - Scout finds him under her bed
Dill
- sheriff in Maycomb
- testifies that they did NOT call a doctor for Mayella
- tells Atticus that "Bob Ewell fell on his knife" because he believes it would be wrong to drag Boo out
into the limelight for killing Bob Ewell
Heck Tate
- nice Baptist neighbor who makes the kids 3 little cakes and takes good care of her flowers
- her house catches fire
- talks to the children like adults
- teaches them many lessons, like that Atticus does the town's dirty work for them and is the same in
his house as he is in public
Miss Maudie
- addict who Atticus said was the bravest person he ever knew
- Jem and Scout have to go read to her because Jem broke her flower bushes
- she has "fits" of withdrawal from morphine
Mrs. Dubose
- white man who has mixed children
- drinks Coca-Cola out of a paper bag but everyone thinks it's alcohol (gives them an excuse for his
"behavior")
Dolphus Raymond
- rabid dog that Atticus shoots
Tim Johnson
- accuses Tom Robinson of raping her
- lives in a dump but has pretty red geraniums
- thinks Atticus is making fun of her when he calls her ma'am
Mayella Ewell
- town drunk who uses his relief checks on alcohol instead of caring for his children
- accuses Tom Robinson of raping his daughter
- attacks Jem and Scout
- killed by Boo Radley
Bob Ewell
- has cooties
- makes Miss Caroline cry
- only goes to school on the first day
Burris Ewell
- Boo's brother who keeps him in the house and fills up the tree hole where the kids had been getting
presents
Nathan Radley