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Character Analysis: To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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I have read a text called to Kill a Mocking-bird which was written by Harper Lee. This text is written through the perspective of a woman who at the time of the story was a little girl called scout who has a brother, Jem, and a father Atticus Finch and various other family members. Scout’s Father is a lawyer and he is busy fighting the case of a black man who was wrongly accused of raping a white man’s daughter. This case proved to be the big case of his life which would affect his children and his family name. I found Atticus Finch to be a very simulating character. I loved this character and felt I could really connect with him and relate to him because Atticus Finch is very gentleman like and a fair man, for example there is an old woman named Mrs Dubose who is very rude and calls Atticus a “nigger lover” because he is …show more content…

It angers me that she wastes the little time she has left hating someone for what they do for a man that looks different to her. Even though she says all of these nasty things on a regular basis, one day he went to her house, where Jem was reading to her, and quote “He went to the bed and took Mrs Dubose’s hand. ‘I was coming from the office and didn’t see the children,’ he said. ‘I thought they might still be here.’ Mrs Dubose smiled at him. For the life of me I could not figure out how she could bring herself to speak to him when she seemed to hate him so… ‘I have a feeling Jems reading days are numbered,’ said Atticus. only a week

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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad”’(115). Every time she would say something, Jem would try to understand what Atticus was saying and he ignored it. It was not until she insulted Atticus which resulted in Jem acting out by ruining Mrs. Dubose’s flowers with a baton. When Atticus found out what he did, he made him go down and talk to her. She asked Jem if he could read to her after school and on Saturday for 2 hours for 1 month.

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