In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the passage I analyzed was a short conversation between Atticus and Jack. This conversation is taking place just days before the controversial trial of Atticus defending a black man accused of rapeing a white woman. Knowing this trial is going to end in an unfortunate verdict, Jack is making sure Atticus wants to follow through with the trial. This passage highlights an important character in the book: Atticus.
One word that helps shed light on Atticus’s character is reasonable. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird Atticus and this word first coincide when it is described that Atticus hopes for a reasonable chance on appeal on his upcoming trial. The exact context of his hopes are expressed when Atticus is talking to uncle Jack about the upcoming controversial trial. Jack is making sure Atticus wants to go through with it even with the unfair verdict already looming over them. Atticus stays with his decision and confirms with
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In the novel Atticus hopes to jar the jury the context of this phrase is when in the story Atticus and Jack are talking before the trial. Atticus is like an activist in the sense that the opinion they hold is shocking and or unsettling to others. Atticus shows characters of an activist in the fact that his opinions are unpopular but he stays true to them. Atticus’s openness to defending Tom shows he stays strong to his beliefs. Atticus also doesn't like other people spouting awful things bring him down. Atticus is also like an activist in because he shows that you shouldn't be scared to stand up for what you believe in. This shows the close relationship that Atticus and Tom. It shows that despite the county’s thoughts on Atticus defending Tom, but Atticus follows through with his defense. Atticus does that because he knows it’s right, which is similar to an activist in the way that they both keep committing jarring acts because they know it’s