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Rhetorical Analysis Of To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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Atticus Finch, from Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, is the appointed lawyer of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping Mayella Ewell. During the trial, Atticus expertly and deftly exposes the Ewells as lacking in morality and as liars. Atticus Finch uses the audience, occasion, tone and subject to create a meaningful purpose in his speech. The purpose is to address the white community (essentially the Ewells) to show the blatant racism within Maycomb. The black community of Maycomb is treated in a notably different way opposed to the whites. Although Atticus doesn't believe he will win the case, he aspires to get this point/purpose across to the reader as well as the audience. The audience of this piece is the jury and the Maycomb

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