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Mind Map by Abbie Edwards, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Abbie Edwards
almost 9 years ago
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Characters in To Kill A Mocking Bird
- Atticus
- 'Civilised' in
his heart
- He stands
for all that is
best
- Provides a contrast
to many other
citizens of Maycomb
- Highly responsible and highly
respected
- Works hard
- The reader can trust him
- He said he would never be able to hold his head up in town or
tell his children what to do if he didn't defend Tom Robinson
- Acts on his beleifs,
even with risk to his
safety
- Never fails to
consider the
human situation
of his clients
- Accepts
payment in
kind
- And is highly
respected for
it
- And is highly
respected for
it
- No better friend
- The great lesson he
teaches his children is
that of compassion
- Has a natural and
sympathetic
understanding
- His goodness and his
faith in reason simply
prevent him from
imagining the worst.
- Broke
with
family
tradition
- A figure of maturity and reason with an
individuality of outlook and action
- Treats his children
with 'courteous
detachment'
- Rational and realistic
- Fair, and always listens
to both sides of the
childrens disputes
- Not physically active and does
not enjoy strenuous games
- Quite old and mature
- Quite old and mature
- Scout and Jem have perfect faith in
their father and they are totally
secure in the knowledge that he
loves them
- 'Civilised' in
his heart
- Scout
- As a narrator
- Innocent narrator
- Advanced for her age
- Highly sensitive
- too young to be aware of
the all the complexities of
the world she lives in
- Innocent and naive
- Sense of justice
is still basic and
fundamental
- Innocent narrator
- Not so calmly
rational as her
father and
brother
- Naturally impulasive
- Her imagination has been
developed by reading
- unhappy at school
because they do
not cater for her
higher level of
intelligence and
development
- Childish dignity
- Realistic character
- Can be unreasonable and impertinent e.g to Aunt Alexandra
- Very close
relationship with
her father and she
feels great loyalty
towards him
- Unselfconscious
friendliness and a
natural courtesy
- gets on better
with men then
women
- Possesses the Finch courage
- matures considerably
throughout the book
- As a narrator
- Jem
- Very much his fathers son
- Throughout the novel the resemblance increases
- Throughout the novel the resemblance increases
- remembers his mother and misses her
- A good older brother to Scout
- Jem grows away from
Scout as he matures
recognising her as a
younger playmate and a
girl
- Jem matures enough to partially understand about Boo Radley
- Caring and generous
- Clever, like his father
- Brave
- sensitive
- Very much his fathers son
- Dill
- Not a full time character
- Parents are divorced - he lives with his mother,
occasionally sees his father and lives with his aunt
Rachel in the summer.
- His own loneliness leads him to become obsessed with Boo
- unconsciously aware of the similarity between them
- unconsciously aware of the similarity between them
- Inventive
- Ran away from home as he
felt unwanted by his parents
- Makes up stories to compensate for what he hasn't got
- Seems strange
- Makes people laugh despite what hes been through
- Not a full time character
- The Radley Family
- Aunt Alexandria
- Miss Maudie
- Miss Stephanie
- The Ewell Family
- The Cunningham Family
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