Not so much Calpurnia, who always orders her around. She is ready to beat up people to get them into their senses. Jem is near his teens. His mother died when he was young, so he misses her and tells his younger sister about her. His only friend is Scout until they meet Dill. He is very brave and moody. They read novels and play in the tree house. .

             Scout and Jem "found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read with us, and treated us with courteous detachment". They called their father Atticus. Atticus is an old man in his 50's, and nice. He never went to school, but studied to be an attorney. He wore glasses and was nearly blind in his left eye. He did not hunt, drink, fish, or play poker. He was very intelligent and tries to teach Scout and Jem how to behave and understand other people. Atticus Finch is related to nearly every family in Maycomb by blood or marriage. Scout thought that he did not "do anything that could possibly arouse the admiration of anyone" He sat in the living room and read. .

             Boo Radley is a mysterious man so he's only know for what other people say about him. Scout tells Dill "in the house lived a mavolent phantom". She and Jem had never seen Boo Radley. " When people's azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them." People said that he committed many crimes. Black people would not pass his house at night and Boo Radley's pecans would kill a man. A baseball hit into Radley was a lost ball, because children were afraid to collect it. Jem described Boo Radley being: "six-and-a-half feet tall. He dined on raw squirrels and cats. He had a scar on hiss face. His teeth were yellow and rotten, and eyes popped out. And he drooled most of the time." Jem also figured that Mr. Radley kept Boo chained to the bed most of the time, or he was dead and stuck into the chimney. The truth is that Jem had never seen Boo Radley, but receives a lot of gifts from him not knowing that Boo Radley gave them.