Comparing 'To Kill A Mockingbird And Mississippi Burning'

Good afternoon class and Mrs Diverstyn, my oral topic is based on comparing Atticus’ and Agent Ward’s authority in their respective plots. Atticus Finch and Agent Ward are both very similar characters that play the same roles in their respective plots in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Mississippi Burning’. Both characters share the same authority in terms of the way they try to establish justice, they also resemble in their characteristics and beliefs.

The occupations of Atticus Finch and Agent Ward both aim to establish justice and maintain peace. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Atticus Finch is a lawyer of Maycomb County. He is a very strong minded character who has a strong sense of justice. Despite the evil presence of racism spreading around him, Atticus was never influenced by it. Instead, he made the issue his responsibility and had the courage to go against the discriminate behaviour and stop its influences. In the plot of ‘Mississippi Burning’, Agent Ward is a FBI agent who visits the Jessup County for investigation purposes regarding the disappearance of the civil right activists. Agent Ward is also a strong minded character who pursues the goal of establishing and maintaining justice. In Jessup County, the disappearance of the civil right activists had seemed strange and
In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Atticus mentions “...one thing that doesn’t abide majority rules is a person’s conscience,” and it was this thinking that enabled Atticus to gain courage in difficult situations because he believed in himself. Agent Ward had also displayed these characteristics in ‘Mississippi Burning’, despite the whole town forcing him to leave, he was determined to remain until the matter of the civil right activists was solved. Atticus and Agent Ward both never lost sight of their duties and responsibilities because of their strong sense of