Atticus Finch In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

There are always those well respected characters that mostly everyone is fond of in each book. In Harper Lee's fictional novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" it tells the story of a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, who goes by Scout. She experiences good vs evil, injustice, and racism all while growing up. She learns that these things happen all the time, all while learning life lessons from her father. Her father happens to be the character that mostly everyone is fond of. Atticus Finch is a lawyer defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a nineteen year old girl. Atticus Finch is a very tolerant and responsible man who treats everyone with respect.

Atticus shows that he is tolerant many times. He is tolerant when everyone says cruel things to him about defending Tom instead of exchanging words, Atticus walks away. If he was intolerant he would have picked a fight when Bob Ewell spit in his face and told him some hurtful things, instead Atticus got in his car and drove away. Atticus also attempted to teach his children Scout and Jem to be tolerant. Since he knew people would say hurtful things to them too, he told them "... You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anyone says to you, don't let 'em get your goat"(Lee 101). Eventually Scout took his advice and walked away, when Cecil Jacobs was talking to her about Atticus.

He has to manage handling Tom's case and taking care of his children. Even with all the events that are going on, Atticus still has time to read with Scout, as he promised. Atticus also wants his children to be responsible, which is why he teaches them things, which they will probably use later on in life. Such as knowing what real courage is, which he describes as "Its when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway..."(149). Which is why he felt the need to take on Tom's case adding to his