To Kill A Mockingbird Character Analysis

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”

Caring and noticeable is Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird take readers to the source of humans action, through faults and experiment, kindness and trouble, hatred and love, and the struggle between blacks and whites. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and a single parent at Maycomb town in the 1930’s. He was set by the judge to defend the guy who was charged with raping a white woman: Tom Robinson(Black man). Friends and neighbors of Atticus Finch were not happy with the fight Atticus was putting up to defend the man who was charged for raping a white woman. Not only does Atticus enjoy being a lawyer, Atticus even enjoy being a father of Jem and Scout. Atticus Finch is a excellent character who is known for certain accomplishment and superior. He is known for many stuff. Atticus Finch has remained a hero in modern days for american literature for decades and an honorable figure due to his honesty as a parent, a lawyer, and a respectable community members.

Our world suffers with many issues such as racism, sexism, hate and prejudice, and society needs people that are strong enough to take a stand. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, courage is displayed in several different forms, especially through three courageous characters. Lee introduces the concept of honorable courage through Mrs. Dubose, a woman who demonstrates that real courage comes from within. Another brave character in the novel is Tom Robinson. He shows everyone how difficult it is for a black man to be both honest and kind no matter the situation. The most courageous person would be Atticus Finch. Atticus is an important character that fits into his own definition of what "real courage" is and demonstrates it in numerous ways throughout the novel, as he goes against most people’s beliefs in order to do what he believes is morally right. Through these three brave characters, Lee tries to reshape people's stereotypical view of courage.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, there are many characters that demonstrate heroic qualities. The story is narrated by a young girl named Scout Finch who lives in Maycomb County Alabama in the 1930’s. There is a lot of racial prejudice in Maycomb County and Scout’s father, Atticus, is a lawyer defending a black man named Tom Robinson. In the novel, Atticus, Scout, and Scout’s brother Jem have to overcome many insults and bullying because Atticus is defending a black man. While the trial is going on, Scout and Jem befriend their mysterious neighbor whom they have never even seen. Through this friendship and the trial Scout and Jem are able to open their eyes to the injustices and prejudices of the people of Maycomb. Scout, Atticus, and Tom Robinson are all heroes in the small town of Maycomb.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a coming of age story of two young children, Scout and Jem Finch, who learn how to live in the prejudiced society of the fictional town, Maycomb, Alabama. Many characters are involved in helping Scout and Jem learn important lessons and mature, whether it is by mouth or through actions. They learn how to be more gentleman and ladylike, they learn that people are sometimes cruel and ignorant, but most importantly, they learn to look at people with more than one perspective. Harper Lee uses the characters Atticus, Dolphus Raymond, and Boo Radley, to show the idea that one cannot fully understand another person until he or she walks in that person's shoes.

Boo Radley never harmed anyone, but was judged by the rumors spreading across the community. Although he was not actually introduced until the end of the novel, Boo Radley is set up to be the last discovered symbolic character for the image of the mockingbird. During the last chapter of the novel, Scout comes to the realization that blaming Boo for Bob Ewell's death would be "sort of like shooting' a mockingbird." (chapter 30). Getting Boo sent to jail or killed would be like killing a mockingbird. Boo is truly a good person. He left gifts for Jem and Scout in the trunk of a tree, he wrapped a blanket around them when Miss Maudie's house caught on fire, and he saved them from Bob Ewell when he tried to murder them. Boo Radley is a victim of Maycomb's social prejudice and a perfect representation of Harper Lee's description of the mockingbird.

Dubose shows great courage in the lowest point of her life. In Chapter 11 a quote from Atticus shows his kids how hard Mrs. Dubose is trying beat her addiction. "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.” (112). Atticus knows that it takes a ton of strength to persevere her morphine addiction because most people fail to conquer their obsessions towards this drug. She might not be the first idea of heroism but it took a lot strength to mentally and physically to win this battle at the end of her life. Ms. Dubose got her flaws and is trying to fix that since “She wanted to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody” (111). Her morals of living life gave her strength to beat this instead of accepting defeat in her

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is an exceedingly powerful novel. It includes many significant minor themes such as racism and hatred which leave the reader to have grown more attentive to the past once they complete the book. The book takes place in Maycomb County Alabama during the great depression. During this period there was a great deal of hate and prejudice towards people of color, in addition to a great regard to social class. The novels protagonists, Atticus Finch a well-respected lawyer and his children Jeremy “Jem” Finch and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch are a few of the towns occupants who respect others regardless of social class or race. For this reason, Atticus has no objections

Throughout the novel we see Atticus being heroic multiple times. One example of his heroism is when he decides to defend Tom Robinson. An innocent black man, who got accused of raping a poor white man’s daughter, by her father who is racist and rude. The town they all live in, Maycomb, is very racially controlled. For example when a white man would accuse a man of colour of a crime, more often than not the white man would win the case. For him to defend a man of colour (Tom Robinson) against a very racist town, he knew he would be facing a mouthful from the town from doing so. Moreover, when he went out the to the jail the night before the trial, he checked on Tom Robinson just in case something had happened to him since he knew he too would be getting a mouthful from the town. As he was waiting at the jail, a number of cars arrived. All of which were full of men who had bad intentions with Tom Robinson, possibly kill, possibly just beat him up, all of which Atticus did not want happening to him. So he went there lonesome with intentions to attempt to protect a coloured man in a racist town knowing that he would get beaten for it. However there may have been times where he was a hero, but there too were situations where he was less of one.

In Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Arthur “Boo” Radley is portrayed as misunderstood, brave, and later on caring. The purpose of the character Arthur “Boo” Radley shows us not to judge a book by its cover. This novel follows siblings Scout and Jem; along with their dad, Atticus Finch. They are a family that lives in Maycomb County. Atticus is a successful lawyer, therefore, he is always busing. Scout and Jem spend most of their summer spying on their neighbor Boo Radley.

Firstly, Lee utilizes Boo Radley’s character to express the ignorance the town has towards him and how it instills fear. The name, Boo was created from the interpretation of him being a scary individual. Towards the beginning of the novel, the narrator introduced Boo as “a malevolent phantom”(Lee 10). The town, Maycomb, had a bias against him which resulted in him being framed as an antagonist for a single wrongdoing. He may have a mental issue, but the townspeople are ignorant, they frame him up as an antagonist since he proceeded with one incorrect action. As the novel continues onwards

It is his job as a parent to raise his children right and it is his job as a public defender to represent Tom Robinson in court and to defend him. However, Atticus is a hero because he is going far above and beyond his job as a parent and lawyer. He is teaching his children to be courageous and stand up for what is right. He proves beyond doubt that Tom Robinson is innocent and is going to appeal his case. This makes Atticus a hero.

His character strongly symbolizes one of a Mockingbird. Due to the fact that he has stayed in his house for his whole adult life, the children have never seen him before, which has created stories of him being a bad person, which like Tom Robinson, is not the case. Miss Maudie explains, “ ‘... I remember Arthur Radley when he was a boy. He always spoke nicely to me, no matter what folks said he did. Spoke as nicely as he knew how.’” (61). Miss Maudie discusses her view on Boo Radley, which is that what is told to the children about Boo Radley is not the truth. In reality, he is a very nice man who would never hurt anybody. The reason why Boo Radley stays in his house is merely because he wants to. He wants to be left alone, similar to a Mockingbird, who should just be left alone. In the book, Heck Tate tries to convince Atticus that exposing Boo Radley for killing Bob Ewell is wrong. He says,“ ‘...All the ladies in Maycomb includin’ my wife’d be knocking on his door bringing angel food cakes. To my way of thinkin’, Mr. Finch, taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelightーto me, that’s a sin. It’s a sin and I’m not about to have it on my head. If it was any other man it’d be different. But not this man, Mr. Finch.” (370). Heck Tate also points out that it would be a sin to tell people that Boo was the one that killed Bob Ewell. This is a

Then I realized that of course Tom had little chance of winning against the word of a white man. Even Atticus says "They're ugly, but those are the facts of life." as Scout also with the racism prevalent in her government. When Tom Robinson is shot he is described as charging towards the fence of his shooter while several warning shots are being fired. He is depicted angry, crazed and hostile by the witness although proof shows he was always the opposite during his life. It reminded me how in our modern lives black men and women are being killed everyday by citizens and police. In the media even after death they are dehumanized and portrayed as being angry, crazed, stupid in their final moments while having no past of being such a way. Black people, all people of colour being shot an lied about. Mike Brown, a yound adult killed only last year had five warning shots fired directly into his back while fleeing the scene. It sounds an awful lot like what happened to Tom Robinson. Both running, both innocent, both black, both killed by white men of authority and both blamed for their own

To Kill a Mockingbird, the novel written by Harper Lee deals with problems in the town of Maycomb that need someone to help solve and work through. Although this man was not physically present in most of the story, Boo Radley helps the kids in different ways that prove he is a hero. In the novel, Boo Radley is heroic because he was always trying to keep the children innocent by shielding them away from more mature problems happening in town and he is protective of them and would help them if it was necessary in a more physical aspect.