Atticus Finch Parenthood

After Atticus decides to take a controversial case for Tom Robinson, and African American man accused of raping a young woman, he is confronted by a mob outside the county jail. Jem, Dill, and Scout watch from the side as the mob threatens both Atticus and Tom Robinson. The next morning, Jem worriedly asks if the men would have actually hurt Atticus. Not wanting to scare his son, but also not wanting to lie to him, Atticus concedes that, “’He may have hurt me a little’” (157).

Chapter 1 This novel starts off with the narrator, a girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch describing to readers about something that happened in which her older brother, Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch, broke his arm and how it affected him afterwards. When she is finished explaining her brother’s broken arm experience, she continues on by going into her family history. Her father’s name is Atticus Finch and he is a successful lawyer in their town of Maycomb County. Atticus and his brother, Jack were the first two Finch members of the family to pursue a career outside of just typically taking over the family farm. Atticus and Jack’s sister though, Alexandra, stayed to take over the landing with her husband.

One of the most powerful people in a person's life is their dad. This is an important philosophy in our society. However, opinions on what makes a father such a powerful figure in our lives vary. I believe a father must be strong and able to provide and protect the family. A father must be there for the family to lean on, they have to be the core of the family.

Atticus Finch is a devoted parent, that does an excellent job at making his children believe what he wants them to believe. Despite the tough times they are going through at the moment, he knows what he wants for their future. In order for them to have the best life, he must be calm, gentle, impartial, and wise. Atticus uses his past experiences to make the lives of Jem and Scout better. While at the same time he does a favor for the community by setting a superior example for them.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about growing up in a small southern town in the 1930s. The most important theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is essentially good and evil. The perspective of the book is from of childhood, in which they assume that people are good because they have never seen evil. In an adult perspective, it would be in a mature and understanding perspective.

The outcome of the trial itself is very different from what the children see as an obvious acquittal. After the trial, Bob Ewell spits in Atticus’s face, but Atticus stays calm. Overall, this section shows how as Atticus works to defend Tom, the children are discovering more about African-Americans and the racism they face. This racism, along with other prejudices, causes the court system to be not completely fair, despite the fact that it should be. Courts should be completely fair and just, or, as Atticus calls them, “the great levelers” (Lee 205), however, humans are fallible, and in turn, so is the court system.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus is the of father two children, Scout and Jem. Being a parent alone remains an arduous task, but a single parent is an utterly different level. Every parent will say parenting remains the utmost challenging task they have ever executed. Although Atticus has assistance from Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra, parenting remains just as challenging for him.

Jem also opposes the town’s racism. He instead sees the incorrectness of the town in a logical standpoint. During the trial of Tom Robinson, Atticus brings up solid evidence that the attack was not from Tom, but her father Bob Ewell. Jem believes that there is no way that Tom would be declared guilty, he still believes that the town is not racist and thinks that the jury people will think logically about the case. “I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each “guilty” was a separate stab between them.”

To begin with, the novel To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates the idea that the effects of racism can result in loss of Innocence. Firstly, Scout is being bullied at school by kids who are annoyed that her father, Atticus is defending a Negro. As Lee writes, “He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers. I denied it, but told Jem. ‘what’d he mean sayin’ that?”

While one of the main themes of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is understanding another human’s perspective. Scout Finch, the story’s protagonist, shows growth and maturity as she learns to deal with the injustice of a prejudiced society. Scout is a young girl from Alabama whose father, Atticus Finch, is asked to defend an African-American man who is charged with rape. The southern way of life during the Great Depression would not allow Tom Robinson a fair trial, and Scout and her brother Jem are forced to deal with a county’s ignorance and racist attitudes. While in the beginning of the book Scout seems to be an innocent, naive little girl, she matures as time goes on and ultimately learns the lessons her father wants her to understand.

Throughout Tom Robinson’s trial, he sees and recognizes Atticus’s bravery in standing up for Tom, not letting racial biases change his mind. Recognizing that Bob Ewell’s actions were wrong, Jem is distraught at the outcome of the trial: “It was Jem’s turn to cry. His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd. ‘It ain’t right,’ he muttered all the way to the corner of the square where we found Atticus waiting,” (212). Jem was upset at the fact that Tom, despite all Atticus did to try and protect him, was sent to prison.

The Character of Atticus To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a timeless story about the meaning of friendship and the difference of good and bad. The story has lots of great characters that show their moral values but has no greater, morally upstanding character as Atticus Finch, the father of the narrator Scout. He has many great moments showing his true colors, and in the process showing his kids the way to act when everyone and everything is against you. Through-out the book Atticus again and again shows he is a wise and wants to show his kid how to act, and is a smart man that only wants to do good. Atticus shows how wise he is by telling Scout, “You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”

To Kill a Mockingbird is about growing up the main character is a girl named Scout Finch who is about to turn 6 when the book begins and 8 when it ends. In the book is about what she learns about people and about life over the course of those two years. the book takes place between 1933 and 1935 in Maycomb Alabama it 's a small sleepy town in the deep south Scout 's father Atticus is a lawyer but they don 't have much money because his clients are poor Scout lives with her father her brother Jem and their cook Calpurnia her mother 's dead during the summers a friend named Dill comes to stay next door and he spends the summer playing with Scout and Jem Scout basically learns four major lessons over the course of the book she learned some partly from Atticus and partly from her own experience the first lesson is that you don 't understand someone until you put yourself in their shoes she takes a while to master this one in the storyline for the first part of the book mostly shows her getting it wrong across the street from where Scout lives is the Radley house the family that lives in it is very on social and the son Arthur Radley is a man in his 30 's who hasn 't been seen outside many years the children in the town refer to Arthur 's Boo Radley as if he were a ghost they have this horrible picture of what he 's like that he eats rodents and cats that he catches that he 's ugly and drooling and I will kill any child he catches the real story of Arthur Radley is that he got in

Displaying Jem’s maturity, this statement is also a prime example of how not only adults use reason. Furthermore, Scout learns that others can use logic no matter their age. On the other hand, the jury of the court case applied only their feelings when deciding the final ruling. Later in the discussion Jem and Atticus had, Atticus explains, “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads– they couldn’t be fair if they tried” (251). The men of the jury’s senses of reason had been altered due to their own ignorance of the facts presented in the case and the fact that they do not have enough courage to say that a black man is innocent.

Atticus Finch as a parent is kind of different from most. He treats his children different than other parents may treat their kids. He treats them with honesty and as they are grown adults. He uses good timing to find have an opportunity to teach Scout and Jem good values he wants to pass down to them. Scout says that " 'Do you really think so? '