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“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it.” (Clarence Budington Kelland) It is hard for most fathers to teach kids lessons, but not for one father. Amazing fathers are amazing while no one is watching, are good people all the time. This is true for Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. He is a man with amazing morals, who teaches them to his children by being himself. He is the father every man would like to be and he shows it throughout the story.
Scout is an amazingly talented, smart young lady who thinks she just picked up her reading naturally. Mostly because Jem says she has been reading since she was born. When her teacher, Miss Caroline, accuses her father
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She also feels that she has been unjustly punished and embarrassed in front of her classmates. Then, after listening to his daughter explain how she attempted to help Miss Caroline understand one student by explaining his family's background and habits, Atticus quickly realizes that the new teacher has felt humiliated by Scouts social expertise. Atticus explains to Scout that she must return to school because he works every day and no one can teach her at home. He then teaches Scout to be respectful of Miss Caroline's feelings: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view..." (Ch.3) Later, both during and following the trial of Tom Robinson, Atticus practices the virtue of charity and sets an example for Scout and her brother, Jem. He is very kind when he interrogates Mayella, even though he knows that she is perjuring herself. In chapter 22, when Bob Ewell spits on him after the trial, Atticus does not respond to Ewell. Atticus's lesson on charity is also extended to Boo Radley. Earlier in the story, Atticus tells Scout, Jem, and Dill to "stop bothering" Boo