To kill a mockingbird minor characters

This is a list of every minor character in TKAMB with short descriptions

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Aunt Alexandra
Strong willed with a fierce devotion to her family, perfect Southern lady, doesn't approve of the way Atticus brings up Scout (she's a tomboy)
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Mr Avery
Fat, crude old man, children make a snowman of him
2 of 26
Miss Caroline Fisher
Teacher from North Alabama, Burris Ewell made her cry
3 of 26
Miss Stephanie Crawford
Neighbourhood gossip, main source for boo Radley stories
4 of 26
Mr Cunningham
From old sarum mob who tried to lynch To, one of Atticus' clients, convinced by Scout to stop old sarum mob
5 of 26
Walter Cunningham
Scout gets in trouble for explaining that he won't borrow money, he goes home for lunch and Scout gets into trouble
6 of 26
Mrs Dubose
Atticus sees her as one of the bravest people he knows, battling morphine addiction
7 of 26
Mr Link Deas
Employed Tom Robinson, stood in court to defend Tom but gets thrown out, defends Helen
8 of 26
Burris Ewell
Miss Caroline sends him home to wash, only comes to first day of first grade
9 of 26
Mayella Ewell
abused, lonely, unhappy, accuses Tom
10 of 26
Simon Finch
First finch in US, sailed acroos Atlantic because of persecution against Methodist CHurch, ends up in Alabama working as an apothecary, built Finch's landing, died wealthy
11 of 26
Miss Gates
Scout discovered her to be a hypocrite - thinks Hitler is wrong but doesn't see the same thing happening in Maycomb
12 of 26
Mr Gilmer
Solicitor from abbotsville, prosecutor in the Tom case, friends with Atticus, Scout thinks he isn't being too hard in this case
13 of 26
Francis Hancock
Scout and Jem's cousin, Scout beats him up for saying mean thing about Atticus
14 of 26
Cecil Jacobs
Scares Scout and Jem on the way to pageant, classmate
15 of 26
Mrs Merriweather
church member, humiliates Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie hushes her
16 of 26
Miss Rachael
Dill's auntie
17 of 26
Mr Radley
Boo and Nathan's father. Very religious, strict, walked to town but never spoke to anyone when they greeted him
18 of 26
Mrs Radley
only function is to come out onto the porch and sweep occasionaly
19 of 26
Nathan Radley
Boo's older brother, blocks up knothole
20 of 26
Mr Dolphus Raymond
wealthy white man, lives with black woman and has mixed children, pretends to be drunk so others have an explanation for his behaviour
21 of 26
Reverend Sykes
Preacher at Cal's church, goes out of his way to be kind to Jem and Scout, Takes them to balcony at trial
22 of 26
Heck Tate
Maycomb county sherrif, gives gun to Atticus to shoot dog, spoke to Atticus about danger of Tom in jail
23 of 26
Judge Taylor
informal man, runs court with ease, makes Bob look a fool in court
24 of 26
Uncle Jack
Atticus' younger brother, a doctor, comes to stay at xmas, kids love him, convinced Scout to stop swearing
25 of 26
Mr Underwood
Editor, writer and printer for Maycomb Tribune, hides in office next to the jail to protect Atticus and tom from the mob
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Card 2

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Fat, crude old man, children make a snowman of him

Back

Mr Avery

Card 3

Front

Teacher from North Alabama, Burris Ewell made her cry

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Neighbourhood gossip, main source for boo Radley stories

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

From old sarum mob who tried to lynch To, one of Atticus' clients, convinced by Scout to stop old sarum mob

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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