A good parent is a loving one and a loving parent treats their kids with respect and teaches their kids important morals, a lot like the character Atticus. Atticus is a loving parent in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird because he takes his time to explain things to Jem and Scout, he allows them to see the best and the worst of the world, and teaches them the importance of fairness. In the small town of Maycomb word gets around and when Scout arrives at school one day she starts hearing from Cecil Jacobs that her daddy defends niggers, this makes her upset and she denies it, when she gets home that evening she asks Atticus if he really defends niggers and he replies with “I’m simply defending a negro--his name is Tom Robinson...but there's been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn’t do much about defending this man.” Atticus surely takes time and explains the situation to Scout. This is important because it shows he cares about his kids and what they deserve to know. …show more content…
Dubose yells rudely at Jem about his father and Jem gets very upset so he had cut the tops off every camellia bush Mrs. Dubose owned. Atticus comes home that evening with a handful of the camellia tops and yells for Jem, he admits to doing it and explained why he had done it, Atticus orders Jem to go over to her house and apologize for what he had done and then he comes back to atticus and complains, “she wants me to read to her.” “Read to her?” “Yes sir. She wants me to come every afternoon after school and Saturdays and read to her out loud for two hours. Atticus, do I have to?” “Certainly.” “But she wants me to do it for a month.” “Then you’ll do it for a month.” This goes to show even though Mrs. Dubose was rude to Atticus that he still wanted the Finch’s to respect her because Atticus believes in