Atticus Evil Quotes

Heavenly Treasures Atticus Finch, one of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, displays many positive personality traits. A widower and gentle father of two children, Scout and Jem, Atticus not only treats his family with fairness, but his friends and neighbors as well. An African American man in their community has been accused of a rape crime. Atticus feels strongly that the man’s innocence will prevail. Since Atticus is a lawyer, he decides he must do the right thing.

When we first meet this curious character he is preferred to as a "recluse" who refuses to leave his house. Jem, one of the children, describes Boo as a six -and-a half feet tall monster with a long jagged scar that ran across his face and teeth yellow and rotten teeth from dining on raw squirrels and any stray cats he could catch. This of course is only a fictional description of Boo, thought up by the children’s active imaginations. Throughout the story we see that Boo's intentions are in fact sincere and he is actually an intelligent child emotionally damaged by his cruel father, we see this in the way that he leaves little presents for Scout and Jem and emerges at an opportune moment to save the

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go” once said Natalie Goldberg. Throughout, section one of To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem and Scout show trust in someone they love and admire, their father Atticus. Jem and Scout try to please Atticus by obeying what he says. They also change their immature ways and learn it is wrong to judge a book by it’s cover. Jem and Scout are developing values and morals because they trust Atticus’s example.

When the Flinch children moved into Maycomb bad rumors were spread about the Radley house, and soon the children were terrified of this “ghostly” neighbor. Little to their knowledge Boo Radley was not a scary mean person like they thought. Boo taught both Jem and Scout that you should not judge people based on what rumors say. For example, in the beginning of the novel Scout and Jem find a knothole in a tree, but when they kept going to the tree there was always something new, like someone had been putting presents for them in their. “I were trotting in our orbit one mild October afternoon when our knot-hole stopped us again. Something white was inside this time.” (page 79). Even though Boo knew that the kids were scared of him and that they believed the rumors he still put effort into making their day and giving them something. Another example was at the very end of the novel when Boo Radley saved Jem and Scouts life. At this moment Scout had a whole new respect for Boo because he wasn't what everyone said. He was better than that. “ A man was passing under it. The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying jem. Jem’s arm was dangling crazily in front of him.”(page 352). That was Boo that was carrying Jem back to the Flinch house. Boo Radley saved their lives and Scout will never forget him and learned a valuable lesson

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus is the “mockingbird” of the story in that he is “killed” when other people are against his harmless “singing”. This is so because he innocently read with Scout at night against Miss Caroline’s will, he clearly had the upper side of evidence in the Tom Robinson trial yet still lost, and he persisted Aunt Alexandra’s blatant request of firing Calpurnia in order for her to be the housekeeper. All three of these reasons help to prove that he indeed took on such a role in the plot.

The readers are introduced to Boo as someone who spends all of his time in his home and a man of a harsh past but he does not put it out on people or show his anger in a way people would start to actually think he is harmful. Instead, he chooses to keep himself secluded because of all the gossip going on in town. It also evident that Boo was not harmful since scout claims that “Boo’s children needed him.” (370). This quote directly lets the readers know that even though Boo was not Scout and Jem’s father, he was almost like a father to them. A father who is loving, caring and anything, but harmful. Similarly Tom also had children waiting for him at home that yearned for him when he was gone for work. Boo and Tom were both very similar in the sense that they are both silent and secluded from all the commotion happening in Maycomb County. They are not involved in all the gossip and certainly not causing harm to anyone in town.

Scout, Jem, and Dill work many summers to try to get Boo to come out of the Radley house for the first time in many years. Jem had been told many things about Boo in his short years in Maycomb, and he tells his sister Scout about the ‘monster’, saying, “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (chap. 1). Jem’s ideas about Boo are very biased toward rumors that can be heard around Maycomb. This shows how Maycomb’s people often judge before they know, seeing as no one has seen Boo Radley in over twenty years and people are prejudiced to believing the unknown is always bad. Prejudice and rumors can often not be trusted and Boo Radley is no exception. After Miss Maudie’s house catches fire and half the town rushes outside to watch it burn, Atticus tells Scout, “someday you should thank him for covering you up” then Scout asks, “Thank Who?” And gets a response from Atticus, “Boo Radley. You were too busy looking at the fire, you didn’t even notice when he put the blanket around you” (chap. 8). Boo Radley is not really a bad person, he

While the rumors said he harmed everything he touched, he was actually a kind person. Boo Radley left gifts in the tree for Jem and Scout, gave a blanket to Scout during the fire, and he even saved them from Mr. Ewell. Although he proved himself good to Atticus and scout, the town wouldn't ever know about his

In the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" Atticus Finch is known as a round character. He plays the father of Scout and Jem, who this story mainly revolves around. Throughout the novel, Atticus is portrayed as a loving father, and a good man who is the same way inside as he is on the out. Atticus Finch doesn't hide things from others,he is respectable, kind, and generous. Throughout the novel, many people tend to rat on Mr. Finch because he is defending a negro in court.

1. Harper Lee's novel is full of interesting and richly painted characters, but my favorite character would have to be Atticus Finch. Atticus is so pure, intelligent, and has a brain full of wisdom and great morals. He is truly a man of morals because he knowingly sticks by Tom Robinson's side even thought the town will shun and judge him. When it came to defending Tom, Atticus focused on doing what's right rather than focusing on his skin color. Apart from withholding wisdom and strong morals, Atticus Finch always remains calm and tranquil. Plenty of people in Maycomb talked bad about Atticus, starting with Ms. Dubose all the way to his own sister, Aunt Alexandra. No matter how wicked someone is towards Atticus he always finds a way to be

I found Atticus Finch to be the most likeable character in the book. He was willing to represent a black man accused of a crime against a white women, knowing he would lose. Most lawyers at the time wouldn’t even have tried to make a plausible case. He tried to give Tom Robinson the fairest trial he could under the circumstances. I also liked Atticus’s parenting style. He spoke to Scout and Jem like adults, explaining to them what exactly was going on instead of sugarcoating it. Atticus was always calm and level-headed, even when he was in a bad situation.

Mr Radley was ashamed of his son’s behaviour when he got into the wrong crowd as a youngster and punished him by locking him up. There is a lot of gossip around Maycomb about Boo and people blame him for any bad things that happen in the neighbourhood, ‘Any stealthy crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.’ Jem turns him into a monster, ‘his hands were blood-stained’, and ‘his eyes popped’. At the end of the novel however, we find that Boo is misunderstood, and gossip of the town’s folk has made him up to be a ‘malevolent phantom’. Scout tells us he is timid, he had, ‘the voice of a child afraid of the dark’.

Atticus finch is a very wonderful person. Atticus finch is a calm person he never yells or use ant cussing words. Atticus nver whips the

In the kids little culture, Boo was seen as a bad man. As mentioned throughout the book rumors of him only coming out at night, only eating cats or whatever he could catch, being really mysterious and overall arcane. The night he saved Scout and Jem, the way Scout sees Boo changed. He was no longer Boo, that scary man who never comes out of his home. He was now Arthur Radley, the strong, kind soul who had been watching over them. A hero should be able to make or influence those to see the world their eyes, much like Scout did when she stood on Arthur’s front

Boo’s bravery and kindness were hidden from the public eye since he was a recluse. Despite being misunderstood, he was kind to the children by giving them gifts and asking nothing in return. Those who are selfless and kind make the world a better place, yet from the very beginning of the novel, Boo Radley was described as a mysterious and frightening individual. ”Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were blood stained- if you ate any animal