How To Kill A Mocking Bird Analysis

Arrticus from “How to Kill a Mocking Bird” by Harper Lee is a good man that loves his children and is pretty much flawless, but his biggest flaw is being a racist. His children think he chose Tom Robinson's case but the truth is that “Arrticus “hoped to get through life without a case of this kind, but [judge] John Taylor pointed at [him] and said, ‘You’re It.’””(117 Lee). He knows the outcome will be a loss, but he continues to try because he values equality and justice in the legal system. After meeting Tom, Arrticus still supports his friend Walter Cunningham who is a farmer and is “part of a [lynch] mob” called the “Old Sarum”. One can say he choose to do the case which is true, but the question should be why Arrticus choose only Tom’s