In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee introduces Scout’s and Jem’s father named Atticus, who is a lawyer in Maycomb County. Atticus carries a watch inside his coat with him all the time, and he refers to this very so often in the novel. This watch comes to represent a symbol in the story as it progresses into the trial of Tom Robinson and that there is time remaining to do what’s right. Atticus tells the children that it isn’t time to worry just yet, after the verdict of Tom Robinson. When the children hear this from Atticus, he assures that there is still hope to save that man. “‘It's not time to worry yet,’ Atticus reassured him, as we went to the dining room. ‘We're not through yet. There'll be an appeal’” (Page #) The reader will