Setting:
1.  Compare the city of Maycomb to the place where you grew up, noting similarities and differences.

2.  The story is set in a small town in southern Alabama during the Depression of the 1930s.   What aspects of the story are particular to that time and place?

Character:
1.  Which characters are victims of stereotyping?  Explain.

2.  Which characters break through stereotypes and express themselves as individuals?  Explain.

3.  Compare and contrast Dill and Boo Radley.

Plot:
1.  What parts of the story held your interest the most and why?

2.  The author, Harper Lee, calls her novel "a love story".  How would you explain that description?

3.  What evidence from the trial made you realize the truth about Tom Robinson?

4.  How were the two separate stories of Boo Radley and Tom Robinson brought together in the end of the novel?