TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Characterization Game

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love

breathing.”

Scout

“You never really understand a person

until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb inside of his skin and

walk around in it.”

Atticus

She is Dill’s aunt.

Miss Rachel

Atticus wakes the children in the middle of the night because

whose house is on fire?

Miss Maudie’s

He loves football.

Jem

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd

have the facts.”

Scout

He doesn’t do anything in his front yard that he

wouldn’t do in his home.

Atticus

“Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her. I said

what did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and

make room for him?”

Miss Maudie

He sewed up Jem’s pants.

Boo Radley

She is the town gossip.

Miss Stephanie

“You are too young to understand it ... but

sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse

than a whiskey bottle in the hand of--oh, of your father.”

Miss Maudie

The figures carved out of soap represent whom?

Jem and Scout

He made up the lie about strip poker.

Dill

"There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered

fiercely, "but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table

when they don't. That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth, you let ‘em...

Calpurnia

He bet Jem he didn’t have the guts to touch

the Radley house.

Dill

Who is leaving gifts for the children in the

knothole of the Radley tree?

Boo Radley

“There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next

world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”

Miss Maudie

She works for the Finch family as their cook and

housekeeper.

Calpurnia

Who decided to use mud to make a snowman?

Jem

Who put a blanket around Scout during

the fire?

Boo Radley

 She hates being indoors. She would rather spend time outside with her

flowers.

Miss Maudie

Hates back talk.

Calpurnia

Self-assess. How did you do during this game? Explain.

Is there anything you would add to the game to make

it better?