The Beliefs Of Atticus Finch In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Taking a Stand For Your Beliefs In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, we see many times throughout the book that taking a stand shows real courage. One of these moments is when Atticus Finch takes the Tom Robinson case, where a black man is falsely accused of raping a white woman. now in their time no matter how much evidence says that the black man is innocent he will still be convicted and sent to jail so what will be the point of having a trial right? Well, the black man's lawyer: Atticus Finch thought the opposite, Atticus was a man with very strange beliefs for his time and as he was called to defend Tom Robinson, he found it in his beliefs to do right by him and to defend him to the best of his ability even though this was an impossible

In the novel, the text also says “ to you. You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, and some Negro men are not to be trusted around women—black or white...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.” When Atticus says this it shows how he believes that even though black men aren’t perfect they’re human just like the rest of the people in the courtroom white or

It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win” This shows that Atticus took the case for this reason to teach Jem and Scout that it takes real courage to take a stand for your beliefs. The text also says “How could they do it, how could they?... They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep.” the quote shows that the case opened Jem’s eyes to the injustice of their world and shows that Jem is becoming more experience and less innocence because of this eye-opener so Atticus taking the case helps his children