With pathos, an emotional argument, Atticus’ speech becomes powerful enough to have the audience feel a sense of guilt of Mayella and pity for Tom Robinson. Atticus’ beginning part of his speech tells the courthouse audience to understand the true purpose of this case, which eventually leads up to the morals of Tom and the courthouse. “The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is.” (271) Atticus is pointing out that Tom Robinson is not guilty, but someone else is. This hits the emotions of the audience because it is insinuating that Bob Ewell could be the one who abused Mayella. The outcome of this case can result in the death of Tom Robinson because the person who is guilty did not admit to the truth. To continue to strike the audience's feelings, Atticus adds the idea of pity to help emphasize the guilt that Tom faces. After giving several reasons why Tom Robinson isn’t at fault, Atticus throws in his pity for Tom Robinson in his speech. “I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the state, but my pity does not extend so far as to her putting a man's life at stake, which she has done in an effort to get rid of her own guilt.” (271) The core idea of this part of Atticus’ speech was to both show his sentiment for Tom Robinson and to make Mayella feel ashamed of putting an innocent man in danger. By revealing the truth about Mayella, Atticus hopes that the audience can also take pity on Tom and to be ashamed of Mayella’s actions.
Imagine the perfect image of justice, most people will see a judge, a jury or even a police. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the image of justice is Atticus Finch. He was the first in the Finch line to leave Finch’s Landing and pursue the study of Law. In order for him to study law, he would have to be intelligent so he could retain the information that was taught to him. Not only is he intelligent, he is also very brave.
In atticus’s closing argument he was trying to persuade the jury into feeling sympathy for tom robinson by using pathos, which appeals to emotion. For example, “ a quiet, respectable, humble negro who had the unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white women.” Atticus’s diction shows that not all african americans
Atticus is talking to the people in the jury and explaining what Mayella did to Tom and how bad it is. Atticus said “ She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: She kissed a black man. Not an old uncle, but a strong young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards.”
Once Atticus fully understands what he has been told by Mayella about what happened the day of the crime, he does his job as a lawyer and strongly defends Tom Robinson. He accuses Mayella of lying, knowing that she was only doing it to get what she and Maycomb wanted. “‘Tom, stand up. Let Miss Mayella have a good long look at you. Is this the man, Miss Mayella?’...
Atticus: A Godly Man, A Great Example In this world that man lives on, sin has corrupt God’s perfect and good creation because of the act Adam first committed at the beginning, and thus because of that , sin has corrupted man as well, making him a selfish, prideful, and envious monster. However, God has extended his grace and mercy towards him through his Son Jesus and what he has done on the cross, allowing man to have a relationship with Him. Not only that, God has also given the man who has faith in him his Spirit to dwell inside of him forever, and since that Spirit is slowly making him more like his Savior Jesus, man exhibits Christ-like characteristics that honor God, given to him by the Spirit. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, for example, Atticus, a lawyer and the father of Jem and Scout, displays great courage, loyalty, and
Atticus most effectively uses emotionally charged language while being respectful in his final remarks to elicit emotions and sympathy to strengthen his facts to bring justice to Tom Robinson. Atticus identifies Tom’s human characteristics to garner sympathy from the jury. Throughout his final remarks on the case he uses certain words to make the audience see Tom as a human worthy of respect and justice. Here, Atticus provides the evidence where the court and jury have prejudice towards Tom.
But since Atticus does everything in his power to help Tom, the people who don’t want a fair trial turns their anger towards him. They could ruin so many things: his business, his life, even his children’s lives, as seen in Bob Ewell’s threatening “he’d get him if it took the rest of his life” (Lee 217). Because Atticus followed his integrity, every aspect of his life is put at
Atticus has been characterised as courageous in "To Kill a Mockingbird" through the use of an allusion and foreshadowing. Courage is the choice and willingness to confront pain, danger or uncertainty, and throughout the novel, Atticus' courage is conveyed through both his words and his actions. During Chapter 9, Jack and Atticus discuss the upcoming trial of Tom Robinson. Meanwhile, Jack expresses concern for Atticus, mentioning an allusion to the Bible, saying, "let this cup pass from you, eh?". This phrase alludes to a scene in the Bible where Jesus prays to God before his crucifixion, asking if it is possible for the suffering of death to be taken away from him, whilst accepting the pain that is to come.
We can clearly see that Tom Robinson is not the type of person to commit a crime in the first place because he “was probably the only person who was ever decent to her.” (Lee 257) Her, referring to Mayella Ewell. Mayella was mistreated and personally I think that Tom Robinson is one of the few people in this book that I would classify as someone who does good things for the sake of doing a good deed, in this instance it would be helping Mayella without being payed, and this is something that Atticus wanted his children to see and learn to do. This quote in a nutshell says that Tom Robinson was likely to be the only person who didn’t look down upon or mistreat Mayella Ewell. Atticus then wants to mirror this personality onto his children when he gave them the advice “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down.
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch taught me to never be afraid to stand up for what’s right. Sometimes, what you think is the right thing to do can get you into a lot of trouble but you’re the one that’s going to have to live with yourself. For example, Atticus is a lawyer that takes on a new client, a black man named Tom Robinson who is accused of raping a white woman. In Maycomb, Alabama, the people that live there are stuck in their ways and it’s one of the most racists places to live in the South.
If the jury finds Tom Robinson as guilty, he will be executed. Atticus is truly pushing for the jury to realize they are about to sentence an innocent man to death.
writes atticus attacked the supposed victim Mayela in this chapter by saying she just blame tom and innocent black man to possibly get rid of her guilt. Another way atticus used logos pathos, and ethos. During his final statement Atticus “unbuttoned his vest loosened his collar and took of his coat.” But Atticus has really never done
During the trial in the book to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee. The Lawyer Atticus Finch uses rhetorical appeals such as ethos, logos, and pathos tap into the jury's sense of ethics, logic and emotion to convey Tom Robinson, a black man, is innocence in a rape case. Atticus uses ethos many times throughout his closing argument, His most powerful ones are “I would like to… remind you that this case is not a difficult one… but it does require you to be sure beyond all reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant”. This makes the jury think again because Atticus is forcing the jury to look in at their own morals when he says to be sure upon all reasonable doubt.
Atticus takes the trial knowing the consequence that him and his family will be harrassed by the town because it is the right thing to do. Atticus finch decides to defend Tom Robinson to be a good role model for his children and prove that the “Golden Rule” is a rule to
This novel is mostly centered on Tom Robinson’s case and the final judgment. Tom Robinson was accused of raping Mayella, daughter of Bob Ewell. Atticus, being a symbol of good moral, dug his own grave when he decided to defend Tom. Since Tom Robinson was an African-American, all the odds were against him, so Atticus’s decision to defend Tom was the cause of the enmity between society and his family.