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How Is Atticus Finch A Good Role Model

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A role model is someone who affects one by their examples, making these people wanting to adapt to the role model's lifestyle. The 1930s was a time of racial segregation and the Great Depression. Harper Lee, who at the time was a 34 year old white woman, decided to express her thoughts on the subject of racial discrimination through her award winning book To Kill a Mockingbird. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is a good role model because he defends Tom Robinson, he wants the best for his children, and he is truthful. Atticus took the Tom Robinson case and gave it all he got to prove Tom was innocent. Atticus was not going to take this case and leave Tom with no support; in essence, giving Tom a death sentence like most lawyers would. “‘[You] know the court appointed him to defend this nigger.’ ‘Yeah, but Atticus aims to defend him.’”(163) Atticus believed it was a sin to kill a mockingbird because they never do anything wrong. Robinson never did anything to harm Mayella Ewell so Atticus knew he should not be sentenced and chose to do everything he could to defend Robinson. Some people say that Atticus never …show more content…

“The main one is, if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.”(76) While this is true, if Atticus did not take

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