Atticus Evil Quotes

Harper Lee is a friendly and outgoing person. Harper Lee began writing To Kill A Mockingbird in 1960. This story took place in 1936 when harper lee was younger living out her childhood in Monroeville, Alabama. This book explains to us the roots and consequences of racism that occurred in the book and how good and evil can happen to a town or an individual. In her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee uses Tom Robinson, Atticus, and Jem to show that good and evil can happen in a person and a town. To begin, Lee uses Tom Robinson as a human mockingbird. Tom Robinson is a very nice and innocent man. He is a black male who is twenty-five years old. In The symbol. Atticus tells Scout “I’m simply defending a Negro — his name is “Tom Robinson…he

Atticus is a nice and outgoing person who is trying to make a change in the town. He is a middle-aged man who lives in the suburbs. Who is also one of the finest lawyers in towns and is good at what he does.“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.” … (Lee 90) This shows us the man Atticus is. The meaning of this quote is that it is a sin to harm anything so beautiful and pure when it hasn’t done anything wrong to you. As the story continues after the court case has happened and they found out Tom Robinson was dead there was a little altercation between Atticus and Bob Ewell.“Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he'd get him if it took the rest of his life” ( Lee 290). This shows us the symbol of evil because of what the court case did to Atticus because he was simply defending a negro. Bob Ewell had come across him at some point in time spitting on him and threatening him saying that he was going to kill him. Eventually, the whole town turned against Atticus just because he was simply trying to make a change in the town. Harper Lee uses Atticus to show that good and bad can happen to someone who is simply trying to be