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Atticus Motivation

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."This comes from a wise man by the name of Atticus. He teaches his kids lessons to get through life’s challenges. His kids, Scout and Jem, learned his lessons through many examples such as the Tom Robinson trial and seeing the innocence of Boo Radley. In this essay, we will talk about the theme on To Kill a Mockingbird which is “It is a sin to kill the innocent,” and we’ll show this by identifying the character development of Scout, motivation of Atticus, and how we can apply this to real life.

Atticus’s goal was to raise his kids well and prepare them for life’s challenges. By showing and teaching these lessons to his kids, obstacles arise such as Bob Ewell’s hatred toward Atticus, Aunt Alexandra’s racism towards, and the court’s decision on Tom Robinson. Atticus was willing to protect Tom’s jail cell, willing to allow his kids to witness the evilness of the mob, willing to be criticized and hated by Maycomb, and willing to …show more content…

Also, we can help to prove others innocent in certain situations such as in court cases or in a daily situations. We can also take into consideration of people of a different skin tone are going to jail for just having a different skin tone. We can help them out and attest their innocence.

In this essay, we talked about the theme on To Kill a Mockingbird which is “It is a sin to kill the innocent”,we showed this by identifying the character development of Scout and motivation of Atticus, and we showed how to apply this to real life. Atticus’s cleverness really did boost Jem and Scout’s knowledge and experience in the world. Also, it impacted readers of this novel and it inspired them. Atticus teaches not only his kids lessons but us also. “It is a sin to kill a

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