How Is Atticus Finch Effective

During the the 1930s people didn’t favor blacks. They treated them like pests. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there is a court case going down. Tom Robinson, a black man, is being accused that he raped Mayella Ewell, a white woman. Atticus Finch is trying to defend him and he is having trouble doing it. In the end he loses, but he has a final statement that is very effective to many people like the black community, Jem and Scout, and the Sheriff, Heck Tate who was just trying to convince that Tom Robinson committed the crime. Atticus’s final statement may not have been effective to helping prove Tom Robinson not guilty, but he stated lots of points and it was effective to many different people and groups of people. A big point he made was that Mayella broke a common rule in society, she tempted a negro, Atticus states, “I saw guilt, because it was

Another important point is that not only did the Ewells lie, they made Heck Tate the sheriff lie. Atticus states that, “Which, gentlemen, we know is in itself as black as Tom Robinson’s skin, a lie I do not have to point out to you. You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women-black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.”(Lee 232) These were only a few of of his final statements and even though they don’t effect the fact that Tom Robinson is going