Character Analysis Of Atticus Finch In To Kill A Mockingbird, By Harper Lee

Today’s society is damaged with the results of people doing terrible things to each other. Peoples actions can make or break lives.The novel To Kill A Mockingbird, is about a little girl, her Brother, their Dad, and the negro they all fight to defend. The main character scout and her older brother Jem, get into all sorts of dilemmas in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. As they learn new valuable lessons about life, they also pick up that the small town they grow up in is not as clean and safe as it seems. The father, Atticus Finch is a kind hearted soul who was given the case of Tom Robinson, a negro accused of Raping a white woman. As soon as Atticus was given the case he aimed to defend Tom but a faulty jury made sure it did not happen.To

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee presents Atticus Finch as a principled lawyer, committed but single father to Scout and Jem, and a law-abiding citizen. Atticus is a respectable gentleman in society and a role model for his children. Throughout the book we see evidence of his honorable intentions, though he doesn’t seem to reap the rewards. He is morally upstanding, even-keeled, and daring. Because of these things, Atticus is a man who deserves great respect and admiration.

Atticus's strong sense of morality and justice motivates him to defend Tom Robinson with determination, giving it all he has. He shows this when he says, "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try and win." (pg.82). He says this to Scout after she comes home from school angry at Cecil Jacobs for making fun of Atticus in the schoolyard. Atticus tells her to fight with her head instead of her fists. He wants the people of Maycomb to hear the truth about Tom, "That boy may go to the chair, but he's not going till the truth's told." (pg.159). Atticus is putting everything a man holds dear, dignity, respect, honor and status, on the line to protect Tom. He later shows more bravery when he goes to the jailhouse to

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.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is represented as the stereotypical, all well-knowing fatherly figure to Jem and Scout, and more than oftenly teaches them moral lessons and how to behave as they are transitioning into young adulthood.  Three values that Atticus Finch heavily instills within his children is to live humbly, swear by equality, and have respect for everyone no matter what color your skin is or what you believe in.  These values shape and mold each Jem and Scout into independently minded children who learn wrong from right as the book’s plotline continues.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is a lawyer who decides to defend a black man. This man’s name was Tom Robinson, and he was accused of raping a girl named Mayella Ewell. Atticus believes that these accusations were false so he decided to stand up for Tom. Atticus was right to stand up for Tom Robinson because he believed in stopping racism, doing what is right, and defending an innocent man.

During the 1930’s, racism and drug addiction were far from rare. 54% of executed people were African American and for every ten women, seven were addicted to opium, morphine or laudanum. Following these trends was common, but going against the statistics and changing the outcomes was no easy task. In Harper Lee’s best seller To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch and Mrs. Dubose prove change is possible. Atticus Finch, the only lawyer in small Maycomb County, Alabama, rattles the sleepy town when he accepts a case to defend an accused Negro named Tom Robinson.

“We were nearly to the road when I felt Jem’s hand leave me, felt him jerk backwards to the ground. More scuffling, and there came a dull crunching sound and Jem screamed.” This shows how nasty and racist Bob Ewell was to come after Atticus’s children. Just because he was defending a black man in his

Not many people see the blacks as actual human beings and feel they deserve the same rights as whites. Even if Atticus did not believe that blacks should be treated equally, he still tried to make a difference by being Tom’s lawyer and getting as close to being innocent as possible. Atticus did not have to take the case, but he thought it would teach him a lesson and be a case that he would never forget. He used almost everything possible to make the jury see that Tom was not guilty. The blacks were so thankful for this; Tom could have gotten a terrible lawyer that did absolutely nothing.

Since Tom is black, Atticus knows he has slim to none chance that Tom would be proven innocent in the courts “Atticus, are we going to win it?” “No, honey.” “Then why” “Simply because we were licked a hundred year before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.” (pg. 76 Lee) Atticus says this because he wants to teach Jem and Scout that prejudice and stereotyping are the wrong morals in life.

Atticus is chosen to defend a black man in a trial and all sorts of controversy arises. Harper Lee shows that courage is tested when we are asked to do things other people view as wrong. ` Courage is about not caring what other people think. Atticus Finch is appointed by Judge Taylor to defend Tom Robinson in his trial. Tom Robinson is a black man who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white women.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Judge Taylor chooses Atticus Finch to represent Tom Robinson in the case with Bob Ewell, and Atticus proves he is worthy of this trust. Judge Taylor trusts Atticus over the other judges in Tom Robinson’s case because he knows that Atticus will justly represent Tom.

As we were reading to kill a mockingbird I realized that Atticus Finch Is a really great father and lawyer. What really caught my eye in the book was when they accused Tom Robinson of allegedly raping Mayella Ewell. The fact that Tom Robinson only has one good arm and is left handed when Mayella Ewell had punch marks on her along with her neck being choked, all the evidence that Atticus presented showed that Tom Robinson was innocent. And then Tom Robinson ends up being guilty and what happened to him at the kind of end wasn't right and all Atticus wanted was justice and what end up happening to Tom Robinson was very unfair, just because of his skin color. If I was in Atticus position I would be disappointed because you would think people would see all the injustice happening at this time. And would see that what was happening ruined his life and they wouldn't like if that happen to them.

Atticus has many great attributes but sometimes he can be over confident and he is also very ignorant, making him not necessarily always right and making him assume things rather than thinking about what is actually right. How he assumed and underestimated Bob Ewell’s vicious actions is an example of his ignorance. Atticus is a very confident person but his confidence can lead to him not seeing different situations properly because he thinks he knows what is going to happen or in this case he thinks he knows Bob Ewell very well. “I know how that kind are about paying off grudges, but I don’t understand why he should harbor one—he had his way in court, didn’t he?”

Atticus is a good father because he is a good role model to his kids and he teaches them both life lessons. Atticus is a young man who is an attorney. He lives in Maycomb, Alabama with his two kids, Jean Louise Finch (Scout) and Jeremy Atticus Finch (Jem). A role model is a person who is looked to by others as an example to be imitated.