What Does Atticus Represent In To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee successfully published "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the first time on July 11, 1960. The book is about the point of view of a little girl named Scout, who lives with her dad, Atticus, and her brother, Jem, in the rural town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the early 1930s. Why would Harper Lee named the book “To kill a mockingbird” but not some other birds? What can we learn from the book?

In chapter 10, questioning the reason why her dad doesn’t have the similar habit as her schoolmate’s father, she keeps asking Miss Maudie and still disorients herself by not keeping Atticus’s word in her mind. The moment when Atticus shot the mad dog enlightened her mindset with different thoughts and answers. By using the symbols of the mockingbird

And Atticus was nearly fifty when Scout asked his age, showing that Atticus may have had different personalities and habits when he was younger. Moreover, the author gives us a hint about his past from the moment when he gives "the deadest shot", which brings up the fact that he must have had a fiery past. "He sat in the living room and read". The self-controlled and mature Atticus of now is the product of his mysterious past, which no one knows about. In addition, "left eyes were the tribal curse of the Finches", because the Finch owned slaves, so their left eye was blind as a curse. And I think that Atticus wanted his children to get rid of that curse and make a fresh start for Scout and Jem, so the tradeoff of his cool habits for maturity is worth it. "My father -": when her classmates talk proudly about how their fathers work and compare her dad to her friends, Scout automatically has negative prejudice against her father. However, at the end of the chapter, Scout and Jem realise Atticus is a good shot. The misunderstanding of them has been figured out and reformed into a new thought for them: "he’da told us if he was proud of it", Shout finally understood that Atticus is not incompetent and that a "gentleman" is more than shooting skill. Scout and Jem had been raising their mental maturity after Atticus’s shooting. After all, almost everyone that is important in

"He moved like an underwater swimmer." In this simile, Scout is comparing Atticus' slow walk to that of an underwater swimmer by using the word "like." "The school buzzed", A normal object like a building cannot buzz, but the author uses personification to make the sentence more vivid and give the reader an honest sight. "Yessum","oughta", "yes ma’am","he’da", "whatcha": All of those phrases are dialects from the way that Scout speaks. She combines the phrases to make it easier to speak, and the author is clever when she uses dialect to make the conversation sound exactly like Scout and make the speech touch the reader, a native English speaker. The author also uses irony in this chapter when Atticus is an innocent-looking person and his habits, like "sat in the living room and read", show that he is calm and featureless in Scout’s thoughts. Therefore, the action of shooting the rabid dog and his nickname, Ol’ One Shot, contrast all of his looks and job. Through his action, Atticus knows the difference between right and wrong; he only uses his talents for good and emergency situations. This is leading to the theme of morality in Atticus that everyone should look up