Atticus Finch Injustice

Thirdly, Atticus Finch is an idealist man; he never holds a grudge to anyone. He accepted to defend Tom Robinson and to protect him from any assaults, although he knew from the beginning that he’s going to lose the trial but this does not stop him from defending Tom. He represents morality and reason. He answers his children’s questions and treats them as adults, his parenting style is perfect, and he is honest with his children and with other people. Lee was influenced by her real father wherefore the character of Atticus such as her father. Atticus shows that the Ewells are liars, although he feels sympathy for Mayella but he still believes that what she did is wrong. He pointed that her father is the reason for this mess; he shows that

As Rene Wellek and Austin Warren mentioned in their book theory of literature as a restatement of the Jungian thesis “that beneath the individual ’unconscious’-the blocked- off residue of our past, particularly our childhood and infancy- lies the ’collective unconscious’” (84). In this regard, they are both innocent and victims, Boo’s religious father destroyed him; he created an unstable man, people of Maycomb had the wrong idea of Boo while his virtuous personality was revealed only in front of Scout and Jem. He was not allowed to leave the house; the gothic element that Lee added to the novel makes the reader curious about Boo. On the other hand, Tom felt sorry for Mayella, he shows this in the trial scene, he saw that she needed help; with righteous deed, he helped her. Both of them have a concealed anger, they could not show, Boo finds the purity and innocence with the children but Tom could not find a way to free himself and he committed suicide. Scout and Jem understand why Boo chooses to stay inside. Tom’s sufferance helped them to see the injustice and the cruelty of the society once again but this time with a white man. Education was an important theme in to kill a mockingbird; Lee gives a major lesson of the importance of education. She attacks the education system in Maycomb, education was not a prior thing to people in the town, she gave example of the Ewells, and they were identified as stupid. Even the school teacher was not educated probably, she envied Scout because she has read a lot of books, and she does not need to go to school. The main education throughout the novel is the lessons given by Atticus to the children. Lee describes Tom Robinson as uneducated man; this gives the reader the idea that education is