How Is Atticus Finch Portrayed In To Kill A Mockingbird

Imagine everyone hating you for doing something bad when you think it’s good. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she tells the story about how Atticus Finch a lawyer defends Tom Robinson a black man in court,in the town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. This trial is about how Tom Robinson is being accused of raping a white woman. Everyone is blinded by the color of his skin, so no matter what they uncover they only believe that he is guilty. Atticus is defending him because he believes people shouldn’t be judged on the color of there skin. In To Kill A Mockingbird , Harper Lee develops the character of Atticus Finch ,through what he does, what he says, what other people say to him or say about him.

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In the article The Strange Career of Atticus Finch by Joseph Crespino it says “In countless cultural productions and scholarly works from the civil rights era and more recent decades, African Americans are the subjects in the exploration of racial inequality in American history and life. And yet looming among the most popular and enduring works on racial matters since the 1960s is Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the Depression-era account of Atticus Finch's legal defense of a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman" (Crespino). In this quote it tells us that African Americans are subjects in the exploration of racial inequality. This doesn’t matter to Atticus he doesn’t care at all about racism he just want’s to make sure that an innocent man isn’t made out as

The towns people want to hurt Tom because he is accused of raping a white women, instead of using there words and talking to Tom about what happened they resort right to violence. In this quote "You know what we want" another man said. "Get aside from the door Mr. Finch.", "You can turn around and go home again Walter," Atticus said pleasantly. "Heck Tate's around somewhere" (Lee 202). Atticus is trying to tell everyone to go home before they do something that they will regret. He doesn’t want them to hurt Tom, and he doesn’t want them to do something that will haunt them the rest of there life. The angry crowed is trying to attack Tom the night before his trial so that there isn’t a chance that Tom wouldn’t be pleaded not guilty. They’re scared that if he’s released he would probably go rape another women and there would be nothing they could do about it. Atticus could have gotten hurt by defending Tom Robinson but his little daughter Scout showed up and convinced the crowed to go away and to leave Atticus and Tom