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Atticus Finch Stereotypes

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It all started from the 1600’s where African-American were brought in as slaves in America to do their harsh labors and work for long periods of time. This lead into a societal thing where white Americans believed that black people should be despised, and be discriminated because of their color. This then became even bigger in the society in the 1900’s, when it lead towards to individual colored washrooms, cinemas, bus sections, drinking fountains, etc. An African-American man (Martin Luther King Jr) who thought he should do something about the hatred towards the African-Americans. So, he began a civil movement. On the other hand, a white woman (Harper Lee), an author, who believed that black people shouldn’t be treated differently as they …show more content…

This novel is about how African-Americans were treated unfairly in the past, especially in the South. Atticus Finch is a lawyer who is given a court case in Alabama to defend a black man (Tom Robinson) who has been accused of raping a white woman. Harper lee uses the plot of the hearing to shine a light on the ugliness of racism/bigotry during that time. Harper Lee wrote this book because of how she thought black people were being treated around the 1930’s period; book being set in 1930’s. Although, the book was written in the 1950’s same problems were still occurring around her. What inspired her to make this book is the man Martin Luther King Jr. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, there is a character “Atticus Finch” a lawyer who stood for the same thing as King Jr did, also shared same values as King Jr. Also, in Harper’s life lawyers were in her family, and she studied to become a lawyer at the University of …show more content…

Martin is an activist, also a minister Baptist, who was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He is known for his speech “I have a dream”, which is one of the biggest civil speech of America. Luther was trying to deliver the speech on how racism should be ended in the United States, and discrimination affected the lives of African-Americans. Martin most famous boycott was the segregation sectioned bus. He made it illegal on Nov 13, 1956, where the United States supreme court made the decision. This was caused due to fact that Martin and fellow colored Americans were sick of having to give up their seats to white people. This made many white folks be in a rage, and lead to a terrorist act of bombing Martin’s house. Although, this boycott made him become known as the speaker of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). A common perspective of both Harper and Martin is that they both believed that legal action should happen instead of violent acts. Both believed that violence leads to a road to nowhere. But, Martin also have said that political parties do have problems, and one party isn’t better than the other, but who is more committed wins the race in his point of view. Sadly, Martin Luther King Jr has been assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis,

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Atticus Finch, her father and a lawyer, is defending Tom Robinson a black man who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman. This is during the times of segregation and racial discrimination. The novel represents the importance of setting high moral values, as it teaches us that inequity against others often results in the occurrence of social/emotional

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This novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, is about a family in the depression time in Maycomb Alabama in the early 1940s narrated by a main character Jean Louise Finch. The Finch Family, ran by Atticus Finch who is not just a father but a lawyer with very high morals. Jean Louis Finch tells the story from a child’s mind and much mature mindset of it, since Harper lee is trying to prove that Jeam and Scout are immature. Jean Louis Finch quoted, “Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.” Harper Lee indicates several internal forces that leads up to why Atticus is representing Tom Robinson in his trial of accusing of raping a white lady.

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A novel by Harper Lee, the novel is told through the perspective of Scout Finch, white and 6 years old little girl. Scout, Jem, her brother, and Dill, a boy who spends the summer at his aunt house that was in the same neighborhood as Scout’s, are particularly obsessed with Boo Radley, a man who was famous for stabbing his father’s leg with a pair of scissors. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer and he’s defending an African American man, Tom Robinson, on trial for raping a young woman, Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch shows integrity by defending Tom Robinson and not wanting to cover up the fact that Jem Finch was involved in the death of BoB Ewell. Scout Finch also shows that standing up for what she believes will gain more courage rather than fear of being judged by others.

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