Atticus Changes In To Kill A Mockingbird

A town in itself has a personality like that of a living being. Its personality is a result of its past experiences, its occupants, and surrounding influences. These forces combine and act in a complicated way to move a city, like an organism, through growth and change. Significant forces such as the great depression influence attitudes, such as racism, toward others as individuals compete to survive. In To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout, the daughter of a lawyer by the name of Atticus Finch, tells the story of growing up in the small southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. Through her eyes, the reader discovers many of the struggles of the period faced by its inhabitants and resembled

Harper Lee totally avoids the typical Southern gentlemen stereotypes with her character Atticus Finch. Atticus is not a man of quick action of adventure. He does not wish to go back to the past, and he would never fight to keep the South segregated any longer. During the 1920s and 1930s, most people acted as a group of followers, not leaders. “ Despite or perhaps because of these popular circulation, To Kill A Mockingbird has been for the most part critically neglected.” ( prezi ) In the reader’s perspective nobody really wanted to continue reading To Kill a Mockingbird because of the actions that occur in the book. There were many other problems than that in the book. “ im Charles Baker Harris, i can read.” ( Lee, 7 ) That shows you that many people wasn’t able to read in

Within Many novels we encounter multiple messages, to help us grow and mature. Specifically in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, we learn that it is important to consider other people's perspective, situations, and choices. Starting from Boo Radley's isolation away from the town of Maycomb, because of what has happened to him in the past. To Atticus’ choice to treat everyone as an equal by deciding to help a black man, and treat them all the same. And lastly, the Cunningham's life style, as they are farmers who don't gain a lot of money, and are seen as lower class people. Throughout the novel we see there's more behind all three of theirs stories and choices towards them teaching us a greater lesson. Preparing us as we get older,

‘“Atticus, he was real nice’, his hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me, ‘Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them’”(Lee 376). To judge a person on a false image is wrong. Scout did this with Boo Radley. she listened to what others said and never thought of how ridiculous the claims were. Scout was a little girl who was sometimes quick to form an opinion on someone.

Throughout the second section of the book we experience a shift in perspective, as the author changes focus from Boo Radley and the children to Atticus and his court trail. The second section starts off with Atticus accepting a case to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. As, in that day and age the black race was heavily frowned upon by the white community, with Atticus accepting a court case to save a black man, the people of Maycomb start to mock and ridicule the entire Finch family. Even Atticus believed that it would be nearly impossible to save Tom because of the white jury. Throughout the chapters the Finch family also starts to grow apart from each other as Jem starts to resent scout and tells her to start

How does racism affect a story? As a kid in the 1930s, Harper Lee grew up when there was hardly any equality for African Americans. Harper Lee’s only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is heavily based off of prejudice and racism from her childhood. In her book, she writes about racial discrimination through the eyes of a six year-old girl, named Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch, during the Great Depression. Her and her family are deeply tied into racism and prejudice involved throughout this story. Racism in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is ever apparent as the story is located in a small southern town in Alabama; it is reflected upon three of the main characters: Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch, Jem Finch and their father, Atticus Finch.

In comparing the book and the movie we can see that the relationship between Atticus Finch and the African Americans were exactly the same. In both, Atticus was not prejudice against African Americans which was very strange coming from a man living in the South during the 1930s where racial prejudice was part of society. The fact that Atticus defended Tom Robinson in court, and believed in Tom sincerely really proved that he did not discriminate. We also see this in the way that he treats Calpurnia, the Finch's housekeeper. She is always treated with respect and more as part of the family than a slave. The children are not prejudice either because of Atticus' influence and the morals that he instills in him. This although not the only one, was an important

“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird…Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.” In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch changes throughout the novel by becoming disliked by the town folks and disobeying the law.

Although some characters develop their personalities throughout a story, others are defined in the beginning and begin to change as the plot moves on. One of these characters is Atticus Finch from the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus is the father of the main character Scout Finch and her brother Jem Finch. In the beginning of the book, it is made clear that Atticus is an attorney, whose wife died while his children were still young. This means that he is the sole person who can affect the decisions of Scout in any sort of major way.

The public grew to love Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird, but when he morphed to display all of the ideals he had reviled within Go Set A Watchman the public opinion began to change. Racism was rampant throughout the 1900s, resulting in major criticism when Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird was published in 1960 depicting the issue within the lack of civil rights for African Americans. The callousness of racism is highlighted within Lee’s novels through the shifting personality of Atticus Finch. Obvious racism efficiently demonstrates the corruption it generates than a focus on the people who are inherently averse to racism. Harper Lee perverts the vision of Atticus Finch from the upstanding individual in To Kill A Mockingbird to a morally ambiguous figure in Go Set A Watchman in order to reveal a more overt racism.

Many ideas change with time. Including, how races interact with each other. Race relations changed between the 20th and 21st century. A couple of prime examples of change are The Scottsboro Trials, Emmett Till Murder Trial, Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, and The George Zimmerman Trial. Now as the thought of how race interactions happened have changed. The world today and it events prior to it have shaped how people interact. In history, we have always had a problem with race. Race may be a small thing to think of ,but it always can be found right in front of our eyes.

Harper Lee’s depiction of racial views in To Kill A Mockingbird gives Atticus Finch a main

The novel ¨To Kill A Mockingbird,¨ written by Harper Lee, was based in the 1930´s. The main family , the Finch´s, are a wealthy white family. The town of Maycomb in this novel was based off of Harper Lee's childhood hometown, which was divided by racism. When Harper Lee wrote this novel in the 1950's and 1960, the Civil Rights movement was very big. Black and white people were segregated from each other in many Southern states. This caused her to write about Atticus Finch, a lawyer who took over a case of a black man named Tom Robinson. Not a whole lot of people in the town approved of him helping Tom. A mob even tried to kill Tom for allegedly raping a white girl named Mayella Ewell. Atticus knew the jury wouldn't favor a black person over a white, but he tried

The Struggles in the Face of Racism “Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. ... You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity” by Roger Ebert. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, racism was rapidly spreading across the United States; however in certain places in the US racism was already prominent, one of those places was Maycomb County. When faced with the adversity aimed at Jean Louise (Scout) Finch’s family when her father, Atticus Finch, takes on defending Tom Robinson, Scout learns a thing or two about her character and about the real world that surrounds her.

In Harper Lee`s astounding novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is the glue that holds the County of Maycomb together. Atticus Finch is a lawyer, widower, father and the pure definition of a fair, patient, and courageous human being, who is willing to step out into the dark, unfair world of racism, discrimination, and prejudice, to lend a hand to any victim in need. No matter what race, gender, culture, or religion you have been blessed with, you can count on the Atticus Finch of Maycomb County to be there. Atticus was revealed by his own words, what the people in this story say about him, and his actions. He is shown as the spark of justice, the sign of patience, and the ray of courage in this blind world that is flooded by the