What Is Atticus Finch's Confusions In To Kill A Mockingbird

The book To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. Throughout the story, Scout faces many problems and confusions in the world she lives in. The world she knows is split in two. People who hate and fear, and others, such as Atticus Finch, who have sympathy and an understanding for those who are different and less fortunate than others. Atticus, father to Jem and Scout, defends Tom Robinson in court against the Ewell family. Mayella Ewell and her father had claimed that Tom Robinson brutally raped Mayella. Although all of the evidence doesn’t support their claim, Robinson is declared guilty by the biased jury.Along with racism, Scout explores and discovers how a person’s wealth and gender may affect their social strata as well or the way he/she is treated by others.

On top of the Tom Robinson vs. Mayella Ewell case, Scout deals with more confusion and frustration of her own brought on by racial discrimination. The lynch mob that tried to kill Tom Robinson while he is held in jail had obviously already falsely decided the man’s fate before he was even put on trial (202-207). Atticus already knew that Tom Robinson is innocent and is outraged that a Bob Ewell would do this to such a good man just because he was able to. “There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance.” (296) This takes place in the discussion after Atticus’s harassment by Bob Ewell which included Miss Maudie, Scout, Jem, and Atticus. What Atticus says is yet another example of Robinson’s false accusation of rap against Bob Ewell’s