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How Is Atticus Finch A Good Role Model

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SETTING To Kill a Mockingbird was taken place in the 1930s in the Southern United States. The story takes place in a three year span, in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. Scout and Jem Finch lives with their father Atticus. The story takes place in the time of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment was common in the United States. Most black people worked in the fields and cleaned houses for a low wage. Blacks were treated differently in Maycomb and the book shows how one man is blamed of something he never did.

PLOT Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem’s father, was based on Harper Lee's own father, an Alabama lawyer who often defended African Americans within the racially prejudiced Southern legal system. Scout and her brother Jem grow up being raised by their father and an African …show more content…

In the story Scout is age 6 then ends at age 9, but she tells the story as an adult. She is a tomboy who solves problems with her fists but throughout the book matures and comes to a new understanding of human nature, societal expectations, and her own place in the world. Atticus Finch is an intelligent layer who is very serious. Having to be a role model to his children Atticus is a heroic figure in the novel and a respected man in Maycomb, neither Jem nor Scout idolize him at the beginning of the novel but Jem strives to be Atticus towards the end. Jem Finch a person his sister looks up to. Being a daredevil at first Jem has a shattering experience at Tom Robinson’s trial occurs just as he is entering puberty. He then becomes just like his father and matures.
TONE
The main tone in To Kill a Mockingbird is a childlike tone. It is a childlike tone because the narrator of the story is Scout. Scout is almost six at the beginning of the story and is only eight at the end of the story. "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty." –Scout. This example shows the young narrator, Scout, because she thinks that 50 is extremely old.

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