Atticus Finch Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, one of the main characters, Atticus Finch, faces a trial that could change his life. He is appointed to defend an innocent African American named Tom Robinson that was accused of assaulting a white man’s daughter. Atticus’s belief is that no matter how hard the task at hand is, or even if you know there’s no chance of winning, you should still give it your all and try to win. Atticus states that “simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try and win” (Lee 101). I believe that Atticus did the right thing in standing up for Tom Robinson, because in doing so Atticus sets a good example of the way you treat others when he takes

By choosing to defend Tom Robinson, an African American man; Atticus got most of Maycomb against him, and put his children through a near death experience for it not had been for a savior that finally came out of the shadows. While Atticus saw the good in defending Tom; he was blinded from the bad. Mr. Ewell, Mayella’s father and locally known as the town drunk tries to kill Atticus’s children Jem and Scout. Mr. Tate told Atticus the night Mr. Ewell tried to attack Jem and Scout, Mr. Ewell “‘mean as hell. Low--down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children’” (Lee 360). Luckily, a man by the name of Arthur Radley that had been isolated from Maycomb finally came out of hiding in his home and saved Scout and Jem. If Atticus had never take the case, this even would had never come, and his children wouldn’t have been in real danger. When Atticus took the case to defend Tom Robinson, he also made most of Maycomb look down upon him, and often he would be called n***** lover and Mrs. Dubose even told Jem and Scout ‘“our father’s no better than the niggers and the trash he works for’” (Lee 135). This made Jem outrage and completely destroy Mrs. Dubose’s flowers, but at the same time; Atticus was teaching Jem and Scout a lesson in life. What Mr. Ewell tried to do to Jem and Scout, Atticus never saw coming; no one did. Atticus thought that when Mr. Ewell spat in his face and threatened him, he let out all his anger, but he was mistaken and his mistake could have costed his children's lives. Even though Atticus put his children in danger, he made them stronger by doing