CHAPTER+1

In the first chapter of //To Kill A Mocking Bird// by Harper Lee, you learn a lot about the characters. Scout Finch is the narrator of the story is about 6 years old and has been reading for as long as she can remember. Jem Finch who is her older brother is about 10 years old and he never turns down a dare. On page 7 the Jem says, “Why don’t you come over Charles Barker Harris?” I think this shows how everyone is friends in Maycomb even if they’ve just met. Then there is Atticus who is their father in the book, he is a lawyer. Dill is a boy from Meridian Mississippi he is about 7 during the summer he lives with his Aunt Rachel who lives next door to the Finches’. In chapter one, Dill dares Jem to go and knock on the front door of the Radleys’ which according to the town no one has seen Boo Radley for 15 years except that they occasionally saw his footprints outside their houses at night. Last but definitely not least you have Calpurnia who is the cook for the Finches’ she has been with them since Jem was born, she is an authority figure to Scout and Jem especially since their mother past away when Scout was 2. On page12 Calpurnia says, “There goes the meanest man god ever blew breath into, murmured Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard. We looked at her in surprise, for Calpurnia rarely commented on the ways of white people.” This shows that the people in Maycomb are racist. On page 5 the author says, “There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and nothing to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County”. This quote shows that their lives revolve little around anything else but their families and their county. The author’s point of view is a child’s point of view because Scout is the narrator. This could possibly be the Radley house.