Literature is an important part of our lives, and it’s very present within To Kill A Mockingbird. Throughout the novel, Scout and Jem Finch suffer through discrimination within the town of Maycomb. Atticus Finch, the father of Scout and Jem, is made to represent a black man in a trial in which he is convicted of raping a young white woman. Atticus consults in reading different books and newspapers to calm himself within the time of stress, as does Scout and Jem. Arthur, or Boo, Radley is a mysterious neighbor who, Scout, Jem, and their friend Dill, start to make a game about these rumors. Arthur Radley is talked about often within the novel and as such is symbolized with some of the literature mentioned, Atticus avid reading gives him great …show more content…
The importance of this quote has to do with the fact that Jem and Scout got into an argument while Atticus was reading in the living room. Scout goes to Atticus seeking comfort and rather than dismissing the situation Atticus helps Scout understand it better and gives her advice. Atticus had the proper intelligence to assist the situation and help, whilst reading himself. Nobody likes small changes, especially Scout, but we all have to go through them. Scout had practically been reading by the time she was born, at least according to Jem. “Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelace. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at the entire evening in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Law, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow- anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every