Atticus Narrative Quality In To Kill A Mockingbird

Other than justice, his attentive quality commands the readers’ admiration. Using his intelligence, Atticus questions the witness strictly and gets the answer from it. However, before questioning, he often listens carefully to the witness’s testimony. During the trial, he gives chance to the witness to speak first. While they give their testimony, Atticus never interrupt them. From Bob and Mayella’s testimony, he finds out the clue so that when he reviews the case, the witnesses do not have any excuse to defend themselves and at the same time, he has an evidence to defend Tom Robinson better. “Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch” (19). His attentive quality
not only make the witnesses feel respectfulness but also benefits himself from doing his duty.