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

Atticus Finch is a character in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, developed by author Harper Lee, Atticus is a single parent after the terrible death of his wife. He receives assistance from Calpurnia, a black lady, in raising his two children. A man named Atticus Finch was born sometime in 1883, and he came from a deeply bigoted family that had once kept slaves in a compound. Atticus developed into a lawyer who represents clients' rights regardless of race, which was unusual for that time period. In 2015, another version of Atticus was revealed in Harper Lee’s novel Go Set a Watchman. In this book, he is claimed to be a very racist man who joined a racist group aligned with white supremacist beliefs. Atticus's only daughter Jean Finch or in

Atticus is not reflected as a racist man, and a common person for this place in time. Atticus preaches to his kids to be different and stand out in the crowd, don't be the average folk and Atticus leads by example. In chapter 9, To kill a Mockingbird Atticus and Scout were talking about the racial slur and Scout asks Atticus about the trail that Atticus is taking on, “Do you defend ----, Atticus?” I asked him that evening” “Of course I do. Don’t say ---, Scout. That’s common”(Lee. 85) What Atticus is saying to Scout is that he doesn't want Scout to be the average or norm, he doesn't want his kids to be like everyone else. Atticus doesn’t want Scout to be common. Common in Maycomb(town where Atticus lives) means being and doing what everyone else does and what they do is being racist and judging people solely based on their skin color, and Atticus doesn’t want Scout to be the common folk. This is important to Atticus' positive legacy because this saying shows that he is a respectful man that wants his kids not to use the racial slur like everyone else does in this time period, but he’s asking for Scout to be different and stand out from the rest. Another reason that shows Attiucus in a positive way was in the

Atticus also has a negative legacy alongside his positive legacy. Atticus' negative legacy is shown plenty of times in the article of The Contested Legacy of Atticus Finch because the journal shows Atticus later in life, but the journal also revealed that Atticus isn’t the man people may have thought: “Go Set a Watchman, which gave us an older Atticus, and a less admirable one: a grownup Scout came home to Alabama from New York City to find that, in his dodge, her beloved father was opposing the work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and attending meetings of a white-supremacist group.”(Cep 2) Cep reveals that Atticus is joining many racist and white-supremacistand groups. This is revealing something that people would never expect from Atticus Finch because in To Kill A Mockingbird he is seen as a man who is not the common and sticks up for colored people which is very rare for this time period. As stated on (Cep 85) when Atticus and Scout were talking about the case “Do you defend -----, Atticus?’’... “Of course I do. Don't’ say---- that’s common” This is showing how Atticus is portrayed as a great man and is not the norm in the To Kill A Mockingbird, but in Contested Legacy isn’t the man people think he is: because he is going racist groups that he was against in earlier years and now is joining and