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Atticus Finch: A Better Hero

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Many people think that odysseus is a better hero but i think that Atticus Finch is a better hero. Atticus was born in a small country named Maycomb County. He was a lawyer in that county in the 1930’s (The Great Depression). He had a rape case that he was defending and the person he was a defending was a black man. Back in the 1930’s Jim Crow Laws were in play. Therefore it was not right for a white person to have anything to do with a black man such as defending a black man in court. But like I said many people think that odysseus has courage which he does but i think that Atticus has more courage because he represented a black man in court when that was not the right thing to do or the most popular thing to do at the time. He was also very

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