To Kill A Mockingbird Essays: Character Analysis

To begin, The change we see in Atticus’s perspective and moral values from To Kill a Mockingbird to Go Set a Watchman creates a lasting impact on how Scout sees her father who was once her role model, and the dynamics of their relationship that Scout values. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus is a honorable, intelligent, and courageous. Atticus cares about the moral upbringing of Jem and Jean Louise, but he allows his children to be individuals. In addition, Atticus teaches his children multiple life lessons. These lessons range from the respect of every individual to teaching Jean Louise and Jem a sense of morality and compassion.

In the text it states, “They 're certainly entitled to think that, and they 're entitled to full respect for

In Go Set a Watchman, when Jean Louise goes into her father’s office and finds a racially motivated pamphlet: The Black Plague. Devastated by its contents and confused why it is in her father’s office, she “... took the pamphlet by one of its corners, held it like she would hold a dead rat by the tail, and walked into the kitchen.” (Lee 101-102) Upon entering the kitchen, Jean Louise asks about the pamphlet and learns from her aunt Alexandria that her father is apart of the County Citizens’ Council. This is ultimately a Klan group with a pamphlet filled with Racist garbage who discuss the evils of black people and living in an integrated society with black

After Jean Louise sees for herself, she becomes literally sick to her stomach. This leads to a heated confrontation with Atticus, where she states “ I believed in you. I looked up to you, Atticus, like I never looked up to anybody in my life and never will again.” (Lee 250) After, she returns to pack her belongings and leave she is slapped so hard by her uncle she almost passes out. He then explains to her that she for so long looked to Atticus for understanding her herself, that she didn’t allow for Atticus to be a flawed individual. In result, she finally faces her father and although she can no longer look up and to her father the way she once did, her father is proud she stood up for what she believed was