“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”--Atticus
Directions: Describe the following characters. (e.g. characteristics/qualities, appearance, personality traits, values/ethical principles). Use evidence from the novel to support your claim.
**This will help you complete your final project**
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Scout (Jean Louise) - Scout is a questioner as well as an observer. She’s a young child that doesn’t know what’s going on around her. She believes that her father is not someone who does bad things for example, she says that "Our father didn't do anything he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the …show more content…
Dill doesn’t know his biological father just like Scout doesn’t know her mother. But Dill does like to tell enormous lies.
Calpurnia - Calpurnia is the Finches housekeeper however, she is much more to the family and acts as a mother figure to Jem and Scout, as she raised them after their mother’s death. Calpurnia is a strong influence in Jem and Scout’s lives. Calpurnia is the first black women the children have ever interacted with and she serves between the black and white worlds of Maycomb.
Ms. Dubose -
Arthur (Boo) Radley - Boo is a handicapped man that could possibly be mentally unstable but we don’t know because no character talks about his conditions and what he has wrong wit him nor does the reader.
Mr. Radley
Miss Caroline - Miss Caroline is Scout’s first grade teacher and is new to Maycomb. She is a new, naive, insensitive, simple minded teacher who thinks she knows it all.
Walter Cunningham - Walter Cunningham is a classmate of Scout’s who comes from an extremely poor