The Real Atticus Finch “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young‚ compassionate with the aged‚ sympathetic with the striving‚ and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these‚” George Washington Carver once stated. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Atticus Finch‚ a father of Jem and Scout and a lawyer in Maycomb County‚ is tender‚ compassionate‚ sympathetic and tolerant with everyone he comes in contact with. He does
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set in the great depression‚ and is narrated by a girl named jean Louise (Scout) Finch. Her father‚ Atticus finch is a lawyer who is told to defend a black man‚ and her brother who is always with no matter what. The book follows this girl for 3 years and documents all the important things that happened in her life. The story is set in a town called Macomb which is in Alabama in this town Atticus finch is told to defend a black man accused of raping a white lady hopelessly trying to prove that
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pull up slowly in front of the jail house. I know what they came here for. “He in their‚ Mr. Finch?” one of the men said. I knew I was still a respected man so I told them to keep it down because he is asleep and we don’t want to wake him. They kept trying to get me to leave but i wouldn’t budge‚ I need to keep my client safe. All of a sudden I heard a shriek and a voice call out‚ “hey‚ Atticus!”. Scout‚ Jem‚ and Dill came out of the darkness and stepped into the light. Fear and panic passed through
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Atticus Finch Miss Caroline Fisher tells Scout Finch that her father does not know how to teach. Mrs. Fisher was wrong in every sense of the word. Atticus Finch was not only a teacher but an example of what he taught. I think Miss Maudie said it best when Describing Atticus‚ “He’s the same in his house as he is on the public streets.” (87) He was an honorable and upstanding gentleman‚ someone whom everyone looked up to. He teaches his children the biblical principal that all men are created
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shows the reader that because the island was very isolated‚ not many people had been there. The environment of the island was practically unchanged because there wasn’t human influence. Chapter 2 Outline Part One Finches Cactus finch Vampire finch Vegetarian finch Beaks serve as tools Grant’s Famous for the research Unique way of study Contrast between calculator and computer representing the past to future Grant’s unique researches Part Two Voyage Landing Darwin’s diary Collecting
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the past fifty years is To Kill a Mockingbird‚ which was written by Harper Lee in 1960 (Bernard 8). The story is about Atticus Finch’s defense of a wrongly accused black man while the story is told through the perspective of his daughter Jean Louise Finch‚ called Scout‚ and about her life as she grows up in a close together but racist community (Bloom 11). Since it is told through a young girl’s perspective‚ it is a story about a trial‚ yet also a childhood and growing up involving games and first days
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things done. Atticus Finch isn’t that kind of person‚ he is the opposite in the fictional novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee. In the novel Atticus is the father of two main characters Scout and Jem. Scout and Jem are young and don’t know much‚ this is noticed when Scout fights anyone that insults or makes fun of her and Atticus teaches her about life. Atticus is also a lawyer and is a good one at that and he is determined to do his job effectively. Atticus Finch is a determined‚ wise‚ and
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time things really aren’t what they seem. The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ is a significant example of this. Jem and Scout Finch grew up in the 1930’s‚ in Maycomb‚ a town that’s extremely prejudice towards a lot of different people‚ but also a town that was oblivious to the fact that people are much different from the interior than they are on the exterior. Jem and Scout‚ and the people of Maycomb make conclusions about the ones around them quite often‚ so‚ naturally‚ when they
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Kill a Mockingbird to display what honor looks like through Atticus Finch. Atticus is an honorable character due to his determination to stand up for what is right; additionally‚ he is honorable because of how he reacted to the communities actions. Atticus treats and views everyone as the same‚ which influences others around him and makes an impact. Some of the people that he has the largest impact on are his children‚ Scout and Jem; because of this‚ the lessons learned do not go unforgotten. Atticus
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From the beginning‚ Scout is more terrified of Boo than Jem or Dill are. While the two older boys push at the edges of their fears by attempting to make indirect contact with Boo‚ Scout hangs back‚ not wanting to bring the monster’s wrath down upon them. When she does get drawn into their schemes‚ she pays for it with sleepless nights. Every night-sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified three-fold; every scratch of feet on gravel was Boo Radley seeking revenge‚ every passing
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