She had known the Finches for many years, having been brought up on the Buford place, which was near the Finches' ancestral home, Finch's Landing. She matures from age 6 to age 9 as the novel progresses but remains naive and idealistic, despite an increased understanding of human nature and racism in her town. He comes to the first day of school, but departs just as everyone else in his family does. He and Miss Maudie are close to the same age; he frequently teases her with marriage proposals, which she always declines. Scout is the only one of the novel's primary three children (Dill, Jem, and herself) to see and speak to Boo Radley during the course of the novel and realize that he is harmless, despite her initial fear of him.

Jem watched Avery urinating from his front porch in an impressive arc.

Jeremy Atticus "Jem" Finch is Atticus' son and Scout's older brother by four years. She sends out public announcements, invitations, and activates the fire alarm. In the film, she is not a character and Miss Stephanie takes her place as Dill's aunt. Mr. Gilmer is between the ages of forty and sixty. Dolphus pretends he is an alcoholic so that the people of Maycomb will have an excuse for his behavior, but in fact he only drinks Link Deas owns cotton fields and a store in Maycomb. He behaves rudely when she tells him to go home, wash his hair, and come back clean the next day.

Every Christmas, Henry and his wife drop Francis at Finch's Landing, which is the only time Scout and Jem see him. In fact, he has children with a black woman. Employed by Link Deas following the death of her husband, she is repeatedly harassed by Bob Ewell when traveling to work.

He is Tom Robinson's employer and when he announces in court, that he had not "had a speck o' trouble outta him" in the eight years Tom had been working for him, he is sent out by Judge John Taylor for his outburst. He and Atticus are not rivals and talk to each other during recesses of the case.

Judge Taylor knew that Atticus was the only man who would stand a chance at acquitting Tom, or at least be able to keep the jury thinking for more than just a few minutes. She announced the closing of schools when it snowed and announced the rabid dog that entered Maycomb. However, at such a young age the only answer to his rude comments is this is because of his mother and whoever she gossips with. Calpurnia is one of the few black characters in the novel who is able to read and write, and it is she who taught Scout to write.

She lets Miss Maudie live with her when the latter's house burns down, supposedly in order to steal Miss Maudie's Lane cake recipe, she is the opposite of Miss Maudie who tries to avoid drama.

He also leads the mob that comes to lynch Tom Robinson the night before the trial. By the end of the book, Scout realizes that racism does exist and comes to terms with its presence in her town. According to Calpurnia's son Zeebo, Lula's said to be, "a troublemaker from way back, with fancy ideas and haughty ways." She is spoken about a few times. He warned Miss Caroline that if Burris wasn't released from class, he might try something that would put their classmates at risk.

X was the name he had been given when he was born because his parents marked his birth certificate with an X instead of a name. They were originally from Clanton, Alabama; and are rumored to be Republicans. Calpurnia, nicknamed Cal, is the Finch family's African-American housekeeper, whom the children love and Atticus deeply respects (he remarks in her defense that she "never indulged [the children] like most colored nurses").