To Kill a Mockingbird Allusions & Cultural References

When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.

Literature and Philosophy

Bram Stoker, Dracula (1.32)
Oliver Optic (1.39)
Victor Appleton (1.39)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1.39)
Tarzan (1.39), (4.96)
The Rover Boys (1.39), (4.44)
Tom Swift (1.39), (1.68), (8.104)
Merlin (1.39)
Seckatary Hawkins, The Gray Ghost (1.68), (1.87), (31.40), (31.40-47)
Tarzan and the Ant Men (2.2)
My First Reader (2.11)
The Bible (2.27), (5.35), (12.126), (19.126)
Old Testament (5.8)
Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (11.69), (11.80), (11.84), (11.110), (11.121)
Shadrach (12.23)
Garden of Gethsemane (12.54)
Blackstone’s Commentaries (12.132)
Moses (12.142), (23.59)
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes (17.158)
Mr. Jingle (18.62), a character in Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers
Three Fingered Fred (31.49)
Stoner’s Boy (31.49-51)

Andrew Jackson (1.3), (28.45)
John Wesley (1.4)
Lorenzo Dow (2.18)
Brigadier General Joe Wheeler (5.82)
Bellingraths (8.44)
General Hood (9.26)
Stonewall Jackson (9.26)
Lord Melbourne (9.174)
Dixie Howell (11.34)
Windy Seaton (11.130)
Governor William Wyatt Bibb (13.30)
Lydia E. Pinkham (13.32)
Herbert Hoover (14.1)
Henry W. Grady (15.22)
Braxton Bragg (16.6)
Robert E. Lee (17.58)
Thomas Jefferson (20.50)
John D. Rockefeller (20.51)
Albert Einstein (20.51)
Eleanor Roosevelt (24.55)
Adolf Hitler (26.14-56))
Elmer Davis (26.36)
Bob Taylor (27.3)
Cotton Tom Heflin (27.17)

One Man’s Family (4.102)
Hunt’s The Light of the World (12.54)
"Jubilee" (12.75)
“On Jordan’s Stormy Banks” (12.89)
"Nearer My God to Thee" (15.45)
“Amazing Grace” (24.25)
"Sweetly Sings the Donkey" (26.12)
Uncle Natchell (26.13)