How Does Atticus Finch Deceptive In To Kill A Mockingbird

Appearances are really deceptive; They do not show a person's true self. Judging a person based on their looks is not truthful. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee this happens plenty of times. The book To Kill a Mockingbird is about all the craziness in Maycomb, Alabama. In the book the Atticus, Jem, Scout, Tom Robinson and many others deal with Maycomb’s usual “disease”: racism. In the book, Atticus Finch help Tom Robinson in court proves that he is not guilty of raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman. In the book it also shows the backfire the Finch’s get from the trial. The trial itself shows how one cannot one's appearance are deceptive of their true self. Many innocent people are judged harshly because what they look or what the people they surround themselves with look like. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird Dolphus Raymond is judged harshly just because he is married to a black woman. He makes the excuse of drinking so people can let it go he says “I try to give ‘em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason,” (Lee 268). People think he is crazy or weird and not to be trusted just because he is married to a black woman.

Many people in Maycomb make assumptions and make things up about Arthur “Boo” Radley when they have not even met him. Such as when Walter Cunningham Jr. says, “Almost died first year I come to school and et them pecans folks say he pizened ‘em and put ‘em over on the school side of the fence,” (Lee 31). Walter decided to make things about him and did not even know Arthur. Many other assumptions were made about Arthur another was that he dined on squirrels and cats he would catch and bit off his mother finger. All these things making him look like a monster and an animal. He is actually and really nice person. At the end of the book he saved Jem and Scout’s lives. All of those reasons show how Arthur Radley is not how people judging him to