I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 208. This book tells the adventures of a young girl named Scout, her brother, Jem, and their friend, Dill. They are trying to get Boo Radley to come out, as their father, Atticus, who is a lawyer deals with a difficult case of defending Tom Robinson. In this paper I will be characterizing and evaluating. Atticus, Scout and Jem’s father, is a kind man. He is a lawyer and in the story he is dealing with the difficult case of Tom Robinson. Others do not approve that he is defending a black man. He says that this is one case that affects him personally. As a result, people mock Atticus, and Scout and Jem must deal with offensive comments about their father in school. He