Atticus's Journey In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird Essay, By Keerat Sandhu

To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee shares a journey through Maycomb county, a place filled with ignorance and hate for others in the perspective of a child, living and growing up in Maycomb county. The ability for someone to ‘Walk about in someone's skin,’ was the subject of matter. Atticus, who was an educated lawyer/father taught them this because he felt that listening to one side of a case could not justify anything and that you needed to take in account both sides of a situation. Atticus stood by this principle which he carried on to his two children Jem and Scout who continued to stand by sole principle following in the novel. As Scout described, "Maycomb was an old town,

Dubose, however she would be nothing but rude in return. INstead of anger he felt nothing but pity, she was clearly an ill women which reasoned why he never reciprocated the same feeling back at her because he understood the situation and fell into her shoes. This lead Atticus to make Jem to read to Mrs. Dubose as a punishment for destroying her flowers. Atticus felt that by reading to her would give her some much wanted company and so she could lay off the drugs for a while. Also, another example of Atticus truly living in this way of life was when he decided to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who had been accused for raping and abuse a women in the Ewell family, who was a ‘white’ person. With not thought in that time frame many closed the book on Robinson because he was being accused by a white person for a crime, however Atticus did not fall in that category. Atticus empathized with the man and gracefully defended him as he felt it wasn't fair for him not to receive a right for a trial due to the colour of his skin. Atticus fell into the man’s shoes and saw that true justice must be given regardless of anyone else's