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Question: Main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird!?
What are the main characters and their attributes!? I only need about 3 per person!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Atticus Finch - highly respected lawyer with good moral character, integrity, bravery!.

Jean Louise "Scout" Finch - 6-year old daughter of Atticus who tells the story!. Her main attributes are pragmatism, loyalty, and trust

Boo Radley - a man considered to be the "village idiot!." He is reclusive, shy, and gentle!.

You have read the book, right!? Or at least seen the movie!. If not, please put one or both on your "must do" list!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Joey, Joey, Joey!. Do we never learn!?
http://www!.sparknotes!.com/lit/mocking/
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_M!.!.!.
Next time, you should do your own homework!. The 10% of our generation that is in AP classes can't support the other 90% who will become illiterate hicks!. Don't become an illiterate hick, Joey!. (I'm your age, and I refuse to support you when we are the ones in charge!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

I can't stress this enough!. Pick up the book and read it!. Please please please do your own homework!. This is why the next generation is quickly becoming the dumbest in centuries!. All you need to do is READ!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

The mockingbird
The person who kills the mockingbird
and the weapon he/she usesWww@QuestionHome@Com

Atticus
Scout
Jem
Boo Radley
and I can't remember the other people's names!. It's been a while since i've read that book!.
I would pick up thebook and read it yourself!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

lol you're gonna be so dumb if you keep getting 50 year olds to do your homework for you!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Arthur "Boo" Radley
Arthur Radley, nicknamed "Boo" by the children of Maycomb, is a recluse!. The townspeople claim he was friends with "bad kids" in his teens, and caused trouble!. Rather than let his son be sent to the industrial school, (where the other two gang boys would eventually receive a high-quality education) his father brought Arthur home!. The form of punishment that the father used to keep Boo inside is unclear, but the indications are that Mr!. Radley used religion as a weapon!. The story is that later Boo stabs his father in the leg with a pair of scissors!. He is once again taken to jail!. This time when he returns home, he doesn't come out at all except at night!. The children, Scout, Jem, and Dill, are obsessed with making "Boo Radley come out!." He leaves treasures in an old oak tree for the kids, but Boo's older brother Nathan puts cement in the knothole when the children try to thank Boo in a letter!. When Bob Ewell attacks Scout and Jem on Halloween, Boo comes out of his house to save them!. At the end of the novel the reader discovers that Boo has watched over the kids the entire time they were growing up!.


Mayella Ewell
Mayella Violet Ewell is Tom Robinson's 19 year old accuser!. She is the eldest daughter of Bob Ewell and has to take care of her siblings, since all the Ewell children go to school only for the first day of each year and their father spends his unemployment money on alcohol!. Mayella's mother died when Mayella was a child or adolescent!. Since her death, Mayella has become her father's surrogate wife and her sibling's mother!. At one point during Tom Robinson's testimony a sexual relationship between Mayella and her father is hinted at ("She says she never kissed a grown man before an' she might as well kiss a *****!. She says what her papa do to her don't count!.")!. She was continually physically abused by her father; Atticus politely and indirectly proves this by mentioning the bruises concentrated on her right side!. Mayella cannot attend school because she must stay home, take care of her siblings, and clean!. She is isolated from her peers and very lonely!. In fact, she is so lonely that when Atticus asks her if she has any friends, she becomes confused because she does not know what a friend is!. During her time in court, she is confused by Atticus' polite speech and thinks that his use of "Miss Mayella" is meant to mock her!. She wants a better life for herself and lovingly grows red geraniums, but a change in her situation is unlikely!. To get the human contact that she so craves, she attempts to seduce a black man, namely Tom Robinson!. Her father sees this and beats her up, calling her a whore!. He then finds the sheriff and tells him that his daughter has been raped, even though there is absolutely no proof of this!. By testifying against Tom, she may have simply been submitting to her father's demands, or be testifying in anger at Tom's rejections!.


Bob Ewell
Bob Ewell (Name derived from Robert E!. Lee Ewell) is Mayella's father who, after seeing her kiss Tom Robinson, a black man, beats her and accuses Tom of rape!. He wins the case in court, but still feels humiliated by what Atticus proved and later swears revenge!. He tries to break into Judge Taylor's house and he harasses Helen Robinson!. When Tom is shot, his only comment is, "one down and two to go!." However, he is too cowardly to attack Atticus outright, so he decides to go after Atticus's kids!. One night he attacks Jem and Scout, who fortunately are saved by Boo Radley!. Heck Tate, the town sheriff, said that Bob falls down on his own knife, sending it through his rib cage, thus, accidentally killing himself in attempt to stab the children; however, it is inferred that in reality, it is Boo Radley who kills him!.



Alexandra Finch Hancock
Aunt Alexandra is Atticus' sister!. She is married to James "Uncle Jimmy" Hancock, and has a son named Henry!. Alexandra comes to stay with the Finches for two main reasons: she does not find Calpurnia satisfactory as a maternal figure because she is black; and because she takes it upon herself to educate Scout on how to be a "lady" (or rather, a Southern Belle, which Alexandra has mastered to perfection)!. She quickly becomes a popular Maycomb resident, particularly with Miss Rachel and Miss Stephanie!. She doesn't approve of Atticus' style of parenting, and refers to the Cunninghams as "trash", of which Scout is offended!. She is the grandmother of Francis (her son, Henry, is Francis' father)!. At first it seems that Scout shows no respect to Alexandra, finding her purpose minimal!. Upon the story's ending, Alexandra, at first finding Scout as a vile, un-ladylike girl, is deeply disturbed by the attack wrought upon Scout and Jem by Bob Ewell!. She almost feels as though it is her doing that the children were attacked!. Though she does not approve of all Atticus does, we see a softer, more human side to her when, in the kitchen, Atticus tells her about the death of Tom Robinson, and Www@QuestionHome@Com