To Kill a Mockingbird

1. To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 9

2. Cecil Jacobs • Announced Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers. • Keeps tormenting Scout at school about her father.

3. Atticus • Bought the children air rifles for Christmas • Never had to give Scout a hiding. • Hopes Scout would stop her hot-headedness • Atticus is upset about the abuse the children will be taking the next few months. • Hopes he can upset the jury a little bit with the trial and at least get reasons win an appeal later. • Told Scout to say Negro and not “nigger”. • If he did not defend Tom Robinson he could not: • Hold up his head in town • Represent the county in legislature • Could not tell Jem and Scout what is wrong or right • The case affects Atticus personally. • He knows he will lose the case.

4. Scout • Still tried to avoid school using sinking spells, dizziness and mild gastric complaints as excuses. • Promised she would not fight Cecil Jacobs and feels proud. • Hated spending Christmas with Alexandra Hancock and grandchild Francis Hancock at Finch’s Landing • Scout is swearing at home so Atticus would take her out of school. • Had to sit alone at children’s table for Christmas • Split her knuckle when she hit Francis. • Is upset that Uncle Jack hit her unfairly and explains everything to him later. She begs him not to tell Atticus why she hit Francis.

5. Tom Robinson • Member of Calpurnia’s church • Lives in settlement beyond town dump

6. John Taylor • The Judge • Appointed Atticus as Tom Robinson’s lawyer.

7. Cousin Ike Finch • MaycombCounty’s sole surviving Confederate veteran. • He wore a General Hood type beard.

8. Alexandra (Finch) Hancock • Atticus’ sister who lives at Finch Landing with husband Jimmy. • Has a son Henry who leaves his son, Francis Hancock, at Finch’s Landing for Christmas. • She is a good cook. • Did not like Scout dressed in pants.

9. Francis Hancock • Wants to cook like his grandmother. • Says Dill has no home and is passed around from relative to relative. • Called Atticus a nigger lover. • Cried furiously after being hit by Scout.

10. Uncle Jack Finch • Always kissed Atticus when they met. • He was shorter than Atticus, the youngest and a doctor. • Has a cat named Rose Aylmer • Gave Scout a hiding for cursing and hitting Francis.

11. Maycomb County people • Reasonable people who go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up

12. Expressions • Running a still: distillery, making illegal alcohol • Missouri Compromise: an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories

13. Stonewall Jackson: was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee Obstreperous: noisy and unruly