Analysis Of Arthur In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

After Scout confronts Atticus about “defending negros”, Atticus replies on how this decision is for his own dignity: “‘For a number of reasons’, said Atticus. ‘The main one is, if I didn’t, I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.’” (123; ch.9). Out of the lots of prejudice in Maycomb County, Atticus is one that looks passed race and gender. He holds equal respect for those who abide by the laws of being human. Not much of population consist of people like Atticus, who is not just fighting for Tom for the sake of the town, but for his own virtue. It takes a lot of integrity to stand up for what is right during that time and that is exactly what Atticus is making an effort to do.

Books contain stories. Stories are either written down after an event or created in the minds of writers. Stories that are created contain characters, that are shaped by the author to be exactly what fits their story. They can change throughout the tale to help or hinder the protagonists. One such story is To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, and one such character is Arthur “Boo” Radley. Arthur makes an extremely drastic change over the course of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Jem and Scout, throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird,” learn to consider things from other people’s perspectives. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, says “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in” (Lee 39). They learn this through experiences with their neighbor Boo Radley as they mature beyond their years. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout make fun of Boo and assume that all of the rumors going around about him are true. However, later on in the story the children grow an admiration for Boo and learn to understand him. As they matured, Jem and Scout naturally learned many life lessons of appreciation, respect, and courage

As Stephen King once said, “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” In the book "To Kill a Mockingbird", by Harper Lee, Jean Louise Finch, a young girl who also goes by Scout, experiences many things such as racism, friends, and family. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer who is sacrificing his reputation to defend a black man, Tom Robinson. Scout and her friends take it upon themselves to uncover the mystery of Boo Radley. In this book the mockingbirds represent innocence. Many characters take on the role of the “mockingbird". Exploring Lee’s title, to kill a mockingbird is to kill innocence.

Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel takes place during the depression in Alabama with the main character, Scout, viewing her lawyer father, Atticus, defending a wrongly accused black man of rape. The reader gets to understand Scout’s childhood view of this controversial situation. Scout’s character in to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is really the author’s own life playing out in the novel, which is most likely why this novel is thought to be one of the best American Novels of the 20th century.

The ambition of oneself to pursue justice and righteousness may result in prosecution. In the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, and movie "A Time to Kill" by Joel Schumacher, each demonstrate one’s open-mindedness and forward thinking leads to penalization through protagonists Atticus Finch and Jake Brigance. Both egalitarians take the position as an attorney for an African American and are prosecuted in the process.

Despite living in Alabama in the 1930s, Atticus Finch expects his children to treat everyone- regardless of race or class- with respect and dignity. There are many opportunities for Jem and Scout to concede to the Southern stereotypes of the 1930s, but with the guidance of Atticus and their housekeeper, Calpurnia, the children challenge the common stereotypes of the South- with some lessons learned. These stereotypes are based principally on race and social class. Several cases of these stereotypes arise throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. Many racial and social class stereotypes come out during Tom Robinson’s trial as well as during the children’s everyday lives.

redujice is not something we are born with; it is something that we grow to learn from who and what surrounds us, things that help to form our identity. Prejudice is an integral theme in Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird. Prejudice is evident throughout the novel, not just in the appalling racism but also through, prejudice against different sexual orientations, gender constructs and feminism. Society had certain constructs that had to be met. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee breaks the bounds to overcome barriers, and challenge social constructs.

Arthur must have known what would happen if Nathan or the rest of his family found out about his activities. However, the truest act of courage in the entire book is when Arthur rushed out of his house to save Jem and Scout from Mr. Ewell. Arthur risked his own life to stop a knife wielding madman from harming two young kids. As Atticus says to Arthur, “Thank you for my children, Arthur,” (p. 276). This short but powerful quote shows that it is all thanks to Arthur that Atticus even had any children left.

In “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Atticus defines courage as “ knowing you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyways, and you see it through no matter what, you rarely win but sometimes you do.” Atticus fits his own definition of courage in many ways because he never gives up on what he believes in. He never gives up on what he believes in because he knows what's best and he thinks that if he shows he can stand up for himself and others he will be respected. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and a father of two, he needs to be very bold and he has to show a lot of respect for himself and these kids. People of Maycomb very well might see Atticus as a courageous person a lot like me because of how he acts and the pride he shows in what he’s doing.

The story, "To Kill a Mocking Bird" by Harper Lee, has numerous gallant characters, yet the most brave is Atticus. Atticus is the most brave character since he goes up against the test to protect Tom Robinson. This is courageous in light of the fact that in those days it required a ton of exertion and devotion to demonstrate that a dark man is not liable. Atticus didn't consider individuals to be a shading, he just observed individuals and he didn't take a white individual's assertion over a dark individual's statement. This isn't the main gallant actions for Atticus, he has numerous courageous minutes all through the story, including shooting a distraught pooch and remaining late during the evening to secure Tom Robinson at the correctional facility.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, the development of the character Arthur Radley is instrumental in understanding the ethical injustices of the time. Harper Lee presents Arthur in a way as to suggest and influence the initial perception of him. Scout describes, “The Radley place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end” (Lee 6). Because the children are intimidated by Arthur, they attempt to avoid him. However, as such, their understanding is solely based off of rumors. The element of the unknown surrounding Arthur allows for imaginative explanations and fear. Accordingly, as the children never saw Arthur, they had no real, cemented image of him. Jem imagines, “[Arthur] dined on raw

The kind and compassionate nature of Arthur is foreshadowed from the very beginning of the novel, and illustrate his innocent character despite the rumors held regarding him by many of the Maycomb citizens. While he gifts Jem and Scout unanimously “two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and [their] lives” (Lee 373), he also covers Scout with a blanket while “[she was] so busy looking at the fire [Scout] didn't know it when [Arthur] put the blanket around you” (Lee 72). Not only do these instances present his true nature of kindness, compassion and consideration, they also strengthen his presentation of as a mockingbird. Moreover,he also demonstrates a fatherly and protective role towards the Jem and Scout, as exhibited through Scout’s

The story, in the eyes of two innocent children Scout and her brother Jem, of the discrimination and hypocrisy throughout the town. Maycomb County, Alabama, faces an African American’s injustice while the children learn valuable lessons from their father, Atticus and their housemaid Calpurnia, during the Great Depression. All the while, we are learning from it. To Kill a Mockingbird teaches us the lessons of morale, justice and equality.

In Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird,” Mayella Ewell, a young woman as well as the daughter of Bob Ewell, lives a life of insolence and isolation in the town of Maycomb. As a Ewell, which they are familiarized as being vulgar, uneducated, and indigent, Mayella is disrespected by the people of Maycomb as well as by her father. During the court case, Atticus shows courtesy towards Mayella by addressing her as a miss and a ma’am, which is not surprising for his values of equality. Mistaking his manners with sarcasm, she replies with, “Won’t answer a word you say as long as you keep mockin’ me” (pg.181). Harper Lee is demonstrating the amount of disregard Mayella faces in her life, so much that courtesy can’t be identified as just that. Mayella finds that Atticus is ridiculing her for what she doesn’t have, respect from others. With a reputation such as Mayella’s, people treat her like an outcast. Her lonely life can be a reason to explain why she always asked for Tom Robinson’s company, she wanted to experience friendship and perhaps love for the first time. Her loneliness was so clear to see, even Scout, who still has their childhood-innocent mind, can see through it. Scout compares Mr.Dolphus Raymond’s “mixed children” to Mayella because they both don’t know where to stand in their social class, “white people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn’t have anything to do with her