How Is Atticus Treated In To Kill A Mockingbird

Within the movie To Kill a Mockingbird a man named Atticus Finch lived with his two children, Scout and Jem during the Great Depression. Within the movie we see that Calpurnia, the housemaid, being treated as an equal individual to the other member of the house. The only time we ever see Calpurnia being treated differently is when she is being brought home by Atticus with Calpurnia sitting in the back of the car. This raises questions as to why Atticus won’t allow her to sit up front. Also Atticus could have had Calpurnia sit in the back in fear of what would happen to his family. The again this could all be just due to racial segregation laws turning into social custom. This could be true due to how during the beginning of the movie the location

Tom within the movie is shown to have beaten a white woman and raped her during the act of violence. During the scenes involving the court case Atticus showed key evidence proving that Tom could not have attacked the victim. Some of the evidence was that the victims and witnesses timelines did not work together. The victim and the sheriff claimed that Tom choked her using both hands all around the neck, but Atticus showed that to be false because of the fact that Tom lost functionality to his left arm since he was a young boy. From the book and the movie Atticus spoke about the event saying, “ ‘He got it caught in a cotton gin, caught it in Mr. Dolphin Raymond's cotton gin when he was a boy....like to bled to death....tore all the muscles loose from his bones.’ ” (To Kill a Mockingbird, pg. 186) This shows that Tom could not have been the one to have beaten the girl and raped her. Atticus also showed to the court who hurt the victim. The father of the victim was shown to be the one to hurt her. He was shown to be left handed, the person who hurt the victim was left handed, and also how the father never brought the doctor to the daughter to record the bruises. This all together should have shown to the jury that Tom was innocent, but when the jury came to show their result they ruled that Tom was guilty and would face the punishment shown. Shortly after the trial Tom was

This plantation had been in the family since Simon Finch came to America from his country of origin. The plantation used to make cotton with slave labor. After the south lost in the Civil War the slaves on the Finch Landing Plantation were set free. All that remains, during the time of the book, is the land left behind. The other members of the Finch Family had a custom where every man in the Finch Family would be born would stay on the plantation to live there and raise their families there. Atticus was the only one to break that custom, leaving the farm to become a lawyer and to eventually put his brother through Med. School. Atticus does not care much for the land there but insists on going every Christmas to see his sister Alexandrea and brother-in-law Jimmy. It appears that Atticus dislikes the history behind the land due to him being the only man in his family to not live on the plantation. This further proves that Atticus see man as equals regardless of skin