Does Atticus Say Niggers

As a child, Scout experienced injustice. Since she was just a child, it was very easy for others to treat her unjustly. Her classmates, Mrs. Caroline, and Mr. Ewell criticized and harmed her for unjust reasons. Cecil Jacobs, one of Scout 's classmates, said, “Scout Finch 's daddy defended niggers.” (Lee 99). Cecil insulted Scout, making her upset. Scout wanted to start a fight, but was stopped by her brother, Jem Finch. Even as a child,

When Atticus makes the decision to defend Tom Robinson, it is clear that the town does not approve of it. The hatred quickly spreads to Scout, who is assaulted with hate speech. An instance where this occurs when Cecil Jacobs calls her father names in which he says, “My folks said your daddy was a disgrace an’ that n****r oughta hang from the water-tank!” (Lee, 102) Scout nearly lets herself go to fight Cecil, but then remembers that Atticus

Through this, we learn that most situations are complicated and that we should look at them from different angles. The greatest example of this is the interaction between Scout and Uncle Jack Finch. When Scout gets into the fight with Francis, it is not due to the childish insults from Francis; It stems from the built up anger that Scout has suppressed as a result of the kids calling her a “nigger lover (112, 99).” Uncle Jack immediate accepts Francis’ lies as the truth without listening to Scout’s side or when Scout had been through. Once he realizes what he did wrong Uncle Jack says, “She told me how I should have treated her…(115)” This whole situation could have been avoided if Uncle Jack looked at it from different angles.

He had announced in the schoolyard that Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers. I denied it, but I told Jem” The Jim Crow Laws have unwritten laws that says that black people are always wrong when convicted.Even children who are in 1st grade understand that the Jim Crow Laws doesn’t affect them and that black people are not human.Atticus, being the intelligent man he is, tries to persuade the juries to show that Tom Robinson is not guilty.“The only thing we’ve got is a black man’s word against the Ewells’. The evidence boils down to you-did--I-didn’t. The jury couldn’t possibly be expected to take Tom Robinson’s word against the Ewells”Even though Tom Robinson is a good man, the Ewells are still white and Tom is still African American. The unwritten Jim Crow Law always brought the black man is guilty of anything he did when convicted.Atticus becomes an influential person to the black community for helping out a black man while he himself is white. Even without the Jim Crow Laws problems would be the

The whole community is so dissatisfied by Atticus’ involvement in the Tom Robinson case that they have even passed on their feelings to their children. “Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers.” (99). Young Cecil most likely did not formulate this opinion on his own, but his parents probably put their disapproval of Atticus’ involvement into his head. He later tells Scout that his parents say that Atticus is a disgrace. Atticus has made Scout promise that she will not get into any fights on his behalf. She has been doing well in keeping her promise, but when Cecil says that Atticus “defended niggers” she instantly forgets. Emotions get the best of her and she is prepared to brawl with the boy, but she remembers what her father made her promise. For the first time ever, she walks away from a fight. This shows how much she has grown from dealing with adversity. With the help of Atticus, she begins to understand that a black person is no less significant than a white person. No matter what the people in town say. Scout does come across a few bumps in the roads while figuring this out, like at Christmas when she fights with Francis. “I guess it ain’t your fault if Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover besides, but I’m here to tell you it certainly does mortify the

To demonstrate, when Scout stated “Somehow, if I fought Cecil I would let Atticus down. Atticus so rarely asked jem and me to do something for him, I could take being called a coward for him (Lee 88)”. This shows that Scout is taking Atticus’ request to heart and not wanting to embarrass him by fighting again. It also shows that Atticus messages and talks with scout about justice and judgment had gotten to her if she didn’t want to let him down by fighting another girl. To show sequence, For example, why Atticus is defending a man of colour, “You mean if you didn’t defend that man, Jem and me wouldn’t have to mind you anymore?” (Lee 86). The lessons that Atticus gives Scouts are essential to living in the “real world”, like respecting all races, and the fact that he’s defending a man of colour shows his children to treat people

When the mob appears in front of the courthouse a “ burly man,” (152) as Scout describes, says that he will send her brother Jem home, and then proceeds to grab Jem roughly by the collar, nearly yanking Jem off of his feet. Scout sees these actions and hits the man: ““Don’t you touch him!” I kicked the man swiftly. Barefooted, I was surprised to see him fall back in real pain” (153). Scout knew that in that moment she needed to stand up to the man that was hurting Jem. Another instance when Scout stood up for herself is when her cousin, Francis, called her and her dad a name she was unacceptable: “‘Nigger-lover…’ This time I split my knuckle to the bone of his front teeth. My left impaired, I sailed in with my right” (84). Even though Scout did not exactly know what this comment meant at the time, she knew it was not right. Scout asks Atticus what the slur means on page 108, and once he tells Scout, it confirms her feeling that the slur is unacceptable. Scout and her father were being insulted by someone in her family, she had every right to stand up to him and show him what he said was wrong. These events allowed Scout to realise that there are times when one must stand up for what is right. In these instances, Scout shows that some things, big or small, are worth fighting

At the tender age of six, Scout does not have the maturity level to understand what her father committed to doing for a “black” man. All she understands is that people in the town think that Atticus is doing something wrong. She thinks that if everyone thinks that, her father must actually be doing something wrong. Nevertheless she wants to defend the family and family honor by all means. In the schoolyard Cecil Jacobs announced that “Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers” (pg. 99).

Every Christmas day they spend it at Finch’s Landing. Aunt Alexandra has a son named Francis Handcock. Francis liked bothering Scout a lot. In this part of the book Francis brings up Atticus defending Tom. Francis and Scout are fighting about Scout being a tomboy and hanging around with a lot of boys, and then Francis says “If Uncle Atticus lets you run around with stray dogs, that his business, like Grandma says, so it ain’t your fault. I guess it ain’t your fault if Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover besides, but I’m here to tell you it certainly does mortify the rest of the family— “Scout asks what he means by this and he says “Just what I said. Grandma says it’s bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he’s turned out a nigger-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb again. He’s ruinin’ the family, that’s what he’s doin’.” Scout gets mad because he says that Atticus is runnin’ the family name. So now Francis is running from Scout because she is trying to hit him for what he said. One of the Aunts see’s what she is doing and gets mad at Scout and why she won’t let Francis in the house. Scout can’t say why she wants to hit him because she promised Atticus that if someone one said something to her about the case for her not to let it get to

She attacked Francis when she called Atticus a N lover. “He’s nothing but a nigger lover he yelled he is not I roared”. This shows how much courage Scout has, she was willing to attack her own family to defend atticus’s

The first time Scout experienced racial discrimination was when kids called her father a “nigger-lover,” during the Tom Robinson’s case. Tom Robinson was accused of raping a white girl, and because the “victim” was white. Tom was thrown in jail.When it came to the court viewing the blacks in the book are sat in the upper balcony so the whites can have a clear view of the courtroom.

In a time lost in the color of one's skin, even families weren’t safe from the constant arguing during the most spirited time of the year. As christmas fills the minds of the Finch family they gather and Scout is get some time to talk to her cousin, Francis. Scout soon learns that he's not who she think he is and torments her because Atticus is defending a black man and even goes as far as to say “...now he’s turned out a nigger-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb agin. He’s ruinin’ the family, that’s what he’s doin’.”(110) becoming enraged Scout beats up her cousin to defend her father. By defending a black man Atticus has put himself on the watch list but this doesn’t deter him from from protecting the law and serving the right of all americans. Atticus also had to be very careful not to throw the case and let Tom be found guilty because he had the whole black population of Maycomb depending on him to win a war that had already been lost. Coming into this case Atticus said “This case is as simple as black and white.”(195) implying that he knew he wasn’t going to win the case and Tom was dead from the start but that didn’t stop Atticus for fighting in what he believes in. Atticus fights for what's just but the essence of segregation and racism can’t be stopped by one

Scout is unable to turn to her family for help because they see her and her family the same way the rest of the community does. When Scout and her family are celebrating Christmas her cousin Francis tells her that “Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover . . . it certainly does mortify the rest of the family-” (110). Scout appears quite taken aback by this comment at first and then Francis continues by saying, “now he’s turned out a nigger-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb agin” (110).

Scout had that happening to her because Atticus, her father, was defending a black man as one of his cases. Atticus was a lawyer and for one of his cases he had to defend a black male by the name of Tom Robinson because he was allegedly accused of raping a 19 year old white female. This leads to many assuming a lot of things about him. In the book it states, “ Grandma says it’s bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he’s turned out a nigger-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb agin. He’s ruinin’ the family, that’s what he’s doing.” ( 83 ) This absolutely infuriated Scout. She had this happen to her before with a classmate but, she promised her father that she wouldn’t let that classmate get to her. However, this was different from the classmate because this was her cousin her own cousin was saying these things about her father to her. Although, she didn’t physically hurt Francis like she did to the classmate which was a massive improvement for her because she usually settles her anger with her fists. This shows how much more mature she got throughout the book and she accomplished certain obstacles that were given to

Jem and Scout have a life altering encounter end their childhood with the case of Tom Robinson. Their father, the lawyer of Tom Robinson is under a lot of public scrutiny. Scout is being targeted by kids at school. Atticus had told her to not get into any more fights. “My fists were clenched and I was ready to let fly. Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be” (77). Scout had matured very quickly in a