Atticus a well known lawyer in the little town of Maycomb in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. He comes up against a tough, rock solid case including an African American man and a young woman who grew up in poverty. Atticus has trust in the power in using the three models of rhetoric. Ethos,Pathos and Logos to prove to the jury that his client is innocent and can walk out of court that day a free man. (Lee).
Jake Brigance took the apporch of being more visual as you can see from this quote he asked the audience and jury to close their eyes and imagine this story withoiut knowing the colour of the victums skin. Jake Brigance unlike most used the power of imagination to prove the justification of Carl and his innconce. Attics Finch final speech or statement to the jury was more about the facts and eveindce he had given the jury, the amount of eviendce he ha dgiven it was celar cut that Tom Robinsion was inncocent. “it requires no minute sifting of complicated facts, but it does require you to be sure beyond all reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant”. This quote shows that Attics was asking the jury to just look at the sffuicent evidence he has shown in the court case.
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story is set in the 1900’s, Maycomb, Alabama. During this time there was racism in the south and segregation which separated the whites and blacks from everything. There was also the Great Depression, the whole country was poor and people living in the country had to trade and do other jobs for people to either pay them off or to buy something from them. The trial in this book is about Mayella and Bob Ewell, two white people, claiming and arguing that Tom Robinson, a black person, raped Mayella Ewell. This trial is really important because at that time in the south, white people took advantage of black people and their kindness and thought they would take that or shut up just because they were black.
Atticus has set views on how people should be treated in court (which is equally). These idealisms
In the book, to kill a mocking one of the main characters is Atticus Finch. He is a respected lawyer in Maycomb County, Alabama. He is the father of Jem and Scout Finch. Throughout the book, he faces the problem of representing a black man, Tom Robinson, in a rape case. Before, during and after the case, Atticus Finch always puts parenting first and is constantly trying to teach them lessons and values.
No more than two years after the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published, the movie version was released. Sparking much controversy, people argued whether the book communicated the storyline the best or whether the movie summed everything up, although it is apparent that the novel is better. This is because the characters, setting, and plot are drawn out in an easy-to-understand yet exquisite tale, rather than the movie, which skipped over plot, storyline, and was overall confusing. The characters develop the story.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” was written by Harper Lee in 1960. The plot of the is loosely based on Lee’s childhood, having the sense of innocence about seeing the world through the eyes of the 6-year-old tomboy, Scout. The entire story is Scout looking back at her childhood now as an adult, seeing the flaws in society and having no moral trouble in calling out the injustices of the past. The Movie is very faithful to the book, but the way the story is told is what makes the major difference.
During Atticus’ closing statement, he declares that “in our courts all men are created equal.”(Lee 274). During a time of racism and segregation, a six-year-old girl named Jean Louise Finch has to deal with her father, who is a lawyer, taking a case in which he has to defend a black man who was accused of raping a white woman. The court falsely accused him of raping her and he was sent to jail. The dad of the girl wanted to get back at Atticus for accusing him of hitting her by going after Atticus’s kids, but Boo Bradley saved them.
This semester I read two books, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Chaim Potok’s The Chosen. To Kill a Mockingbird is about the life of a young girl, her father, and her brother in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama during the mid 1930’s. It focuses on the unfair racial discrimination towards blacks during the time. The Chosen depicts the contrasting worlds of two Jewish boys and their friendship through high school and college.
Also, Atticus and Jake were two characters that seemed to hold the same values and believed in justice. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus focused on teaching Scout and Jem the true meaning of empathy while empathy was a tool used to get the jury to set Carl Lee free in A Time to
To Kill A Mockingbird or The Chosen? In these two different yet similar book many people would asked themselves this question. People could probably fight hours and hours on this subject and although some people may differ there are a few key point that make To Kill A Mockingbird stand out. Both book deal with different problems but To Kill A Mockingbird probably has the more relevant one with racism.
To kill a mockingbird is named that because most of the characters are like mocking birds, people who are innocent and who have done nothing wrong in life yet they pay for most of the damage, but the big part of the theme is judging. In most of the story Scout and Jem judge their neighbour Boo Radly, and in another part of the story the town judges this black man on if he raped this young woman all because he is colored. Many people people in this story have confronted evil and don't really know at first, for example Tom Robinson he was with this known, young woman, and when his father caught them together she came up with the first thing she saw and that was his coulored skin, which is immediately judging. He was a good friend to her but
The main theme of the book is that fairness and justice are two virtues that are extremely hard to find. The central question, “How can a virtuous person continue to believe in these morals and not get discouraged?” is portrayed by the central characters Atticus and Scout. The deeply ingrained prejudice, that people of color cannot hope to live up to those who are “high class and white ” is explored and exposed. Sexism and class warfare are other conflicts within the story line. People in Maycomb are discriminated against because of the color of their skin, their social class and their gender.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch, a widower and a lawyer, lives in small county Maycomb, Alabama during the Great American Depression. Atticus defends Tom Robinson, a black man, from false capital charges of sexual assault, which Bob Ewell claims, likewise, antediluvian Atticus must protect himself and his children from Maycomb’s racist views. Even so, the town accidently kills Tom when he attempts breakout, nonetheless, Bob Ewell is bitter towards Atticus for revealing his lies in court. Although, Bob Ewell pursues to kill Atticus’ children for revenge, Boo Radley, Scout’s neighbor adjourns Bob Ewell’s ambush. The controversy of the trial influences Maycomb’s white children and neighbors to mistreat Atticus’ children, Jem and Scout, through abusive language.
In To Kill a Mockingbird the trial expresses a significance relating to the racial prejudice in Maycomb. This trial attracted the attention of the whole town as most residents appeared at the hearing. The defendant, Tom Robinson, was defended in court by Atticus after being accused of raping and attacking Mayella Ewell. However, Tom Robinson testified that Mayella wanted his help with her house work and eventually tried kissing him. This had eventually led to Tom politely asking Mayella to stop trying to kiss him while Bob threatened Mayella at the scene, making him the suspect.
