How you keep humanity in the world is by standing up for what others don’t believe in but you know what you’re standing up for is the right thing to do. Title of the book to kill a Mockingbird, By Harper Lee. Atticus is the father of two Scout and Jem. Atticus is trying to keep racism out of his home town. How he does this is that he is defending an African American named Tom Robinson. Tom is being framed for taking advantage of Mayella Ewell. It makes sense for Atticus to defend Tom because he is also a human because they aren’t different they all think the same and bleed the same color. To begin it makes sense for Atticus to defend Tom because it shows that Atticus loves humanity and is trying to keep racism out of his town. For example …show more content…
How Atticus is getting one step closer to humanity is that when he is talking to Scout he tells Scout something that will stick with her the rest of her life. You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb into his skin and walk in it, page 39. How this supports my claim is that it when Atticus is defending Tom people haven’t walked in Toms skin so they don’t really know who he is and the people in the courtroom found him guilty because of the color of his skin. Atticus is willing to help anyone that’s how he keeps one step closer to equality. During Atticus’s first five years in Maycomb, Atticus practiced economy more than anything; for several years thereafter he invested his earnings in his brother’s education, page 5. How this supports my claim is that he will do anything to help something he believes in. Even if that is defending a black man when everyone else hates African Americans Atticus found he right that he defended Tom. How this connects to humanity is that Atticus is like Martin Luther King he had a dream for people not to hate and have blacks have the same rights as the