Atticus Finch Outcast To Our Society

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me do you believe that 's true? In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee which follows the life of Scout Finch and her brother Jem Finch, who lives in the town Maycomb, Alabama in 1930. Scout and Jem are faced with adventures that happen in the novel and trial case of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a young white girl. Their father Atticus Finch is the lawyer of Tom in the case and gets attacked by the town 's people for defending a black man. it proves the answer to the question In the novel.The statement, "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you."

The idea of them being an unfit race who was in need of probation and instruction seemed to more closely relate to white Klansmen of the South. Their actions spoke louder than words and it seemed as though they were begging to be put in their place. African Americans were not to be punished, if anything it was the white men. They enslaved African Americans, beat, and battered them for years yet when they finally get their freedom it’s as though life will never continue to flourish. The South proved that they needed probation that was never forced upon them.

One of the most courageous acts comes from the narrator’s father, Atticus Finch. A single parent and a lawyer, Atticus defends a black man in court in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama where such a thing is unheard of. The citizens of Maycomb disagree with his choice to help a negro and many look down upon him for it. Atticus knew that when he took the case he wasn’t just going against Bob Ewell, but also the men and women who automatically take a white person’s word over a black person’s. By taking the trial he put the fear of disapproval behind him in order to tell the truth.

The author describes how the behaviors and beliefs of whites in the south had an impact on how the multiple generations of the Bosket males valued their respect and their reputation. The first generation of males began in the 1890’s with Clifton (Pud) Bosket who was alive during the worst time for lynching’s and the Jim Crow era. He had no education and hated the way whites treated blacks. He worked as a sharecropper under a boss that used a whip for punishment. On this day, as the landowner lifted the whip to hit Pud he snatched the whip away from him and said “this is the last nigger you’re gonna whip”.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the most famous books ever written. It is about Scout Finch and her brother Jem Finch. Scout and Jem live in Maycomb County, Alabama in the 1930s, where racism is everywhere. Scout and Jem have adventures in their town with their friend Charles Baker “Dill” Harris, which include harassing Boo Radley, the neighborhood freak, and dealing with their proper Aunt Alexandra. When a black man named Tom Robinson is accused by Bob Ewell of beating and raping his daughter Mayella, Scout and Jem’s dad Atticus, who is a lawyer, defends him.

“I want you to understand that courage isn’t a man with a gun in his hand,” (Lee 112). This is a quote spoken from a courageous man who put himself in other people’s positions and did not believe he was superior to African Americans like many in that time period. Atticus Finch is a lawyer, and also the father of Jem and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The finches live in a small town called Maycomb during 1933, also known as the Great Depression era. Throughout the book, the town faces many racial discrimination issues, especially when an African American man named Tom Robinson is falsely accused of rape of a white female.

Jim Crow laws are derogatory laws about colored people formed in the post-Civil War era; they stayed prominent in the United States until the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. In To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee about a childhood in the South during the Great Depression, Jim Crow laws are very eminent in the quotidian life of Scout Finch, the main character of To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus Finch, Scout’s father, has to cope with problems caused by these laws because he is the lawyer for an African American man named Tom Robinson, who was convicted of a severe crime. Even though Jim Crow laws were considered customary during the 1930s, Atticus Finch protested them in more ways than one, including accepting the Tom Robinson

Bob Ewell is a drunken father of the family. In the part two of the book, Tom Robinson, a black man is accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. The social norm of this time was to respect whites, and treat blacks differing. Therefore, it was a sin for Tom to disrespect Mayella. Atticus Finch, a lawyer and respected white man fought for Tom and bravely tried as his lawyer.

The story " Barn Burning" by author William Faulkner is using a biographical strategy because the author can relate to the main character (Sarty) in the story because he also had a bad relationship with his father (Snopes). The story is about the struggle between the privileged and underprivileged classes. It showed that the black people were under white people because it was the black people who worked for the white people.Sarty was put into a position that he had to testify against his father for burning the barn of the landlord (Mr. Harris), but before Sarty could make a response the Justice said, " This case is closed. I can 't find against you, Snopes, but I can give you advice. Leave this country and don 't come back to it" (Faulkner

They live the lives of normal children except for indirectly seeing the inequality of blacks. Their father is persecuted for protecting a black man named Tom Robinson who allegly raped the daughter of Bob Ewell. Atticus loses the trial and Tom eventually dies. Bob Ewell dies during the attempted murder of Scout and Jem. In this book we view the characteristics and morals of Atticus.