Please provide a description of any one of the main characters (Jem, Scout, Dill, Calpurnia, etc.) in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird, the reader is presented with a description of Dill in Chapter
One, which comes from conversation between Jem and Dill when the children first meet,
and through observations in the voice of Scout, the book's
narrator.

One day the children hear something in Miss
Rachel's garden and go to investigate—Miss Rachel's dog is pregnant and they think that
perhaps it is a puppy. Not an animal at all...

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...instead we found someone sitting looking at
us. Sitting down, he wasn't much higher than the
collards.

Dill introduces
himself as Charles Baker Harris. Jem, not one to welcome a new friendship too easily, is
agressive and asks this "stranger" how old he is—the insult comes from his
question/answer in terms of years: "four-and-a-half?" The discussion is based on Dill's
announcement that he can read, and when Jem finds out that Dill is seven, he starts
"slinging a tall tale," specifically that it's not a surprise to
him that Dill should read at seven
because...

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Scout yonder's been reading' ever since she was
born...

And
then...

You
look right puny goin' on
seven.

Dill is not put
off:

I'm little but I'm
old.

This is a fair statement
for Dill is something of an "old soul." Jem continues to "test" Dill, telling him that
his name is longer than he is, but Dill stands up for himself, saying that Jem's name
isn't much better ("Jeremy Atticus Finch"), and then he gives the Finch children his
nickname: Dill.

Dill comes under the fench into their yard
and he begins to share some of his background: where he's from, details about his
family, but most importantly for Jem, that he's been to the
"picture show" (movies) often. This is a novelty in Maycomb where the only movies that
have ever been shown to Jem's knowledge are the "Jesus ones." The deal is sealed when
Dill admits that he has seen
Dracula.

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Dill had seen Dracula, a
revelation that moved Jem to eye him with the beginning of
respect.

As Dill tells them
the movie version of the vampire story, Scout studies the young
boy:

Dill was
a curiosity. He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow
white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over
him. As he told us the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and darken; his laugh was
sudden and happy; he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his
forehead.

Soon, Jem's tells
Scout to stop pestering Dill for information:

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...a sure sign that Dill had been studied and
found acceptable.

(Research
notes that the character of Dill was fashioned after the idiosyncratic writer Truman
Capote, who was a childhood and, later, lifelong friend of Harper
Lee.)*

Perhaps the best thing about Dill is his wonderful
imagination, to which Jem is immediately drawn.  Whereas things had been boring and
repetitive with Scout always playing second to Jem's leading roles, Dill provides a new
depth to their vivid role-playing. It is Dill who becomes obsessed to learn more about
Boo Radley: to get him to come out so they can see him, talk with him, and learn more
about him.

It is safe to say that with Dill Harris, good
things do come in small
packages!

*Additional
Source:

http://www.celsius1414.com/2010/05/05/harper-lee-and-truman-capote/