How Does Atticus Finch Impact Society
Throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, many different characters were introduced. Overall, my favorite character was Atticus Finch. He had the greatest impact on others and he was written into the story well. Atticus made people think about prejudice and start to question the idea entirely. He also taught Scout many important life skills.
Atticus Finch is a lawyer and Scout and Jem’s father. “... when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law” (Lee 5). When the book said “To read law,” that means he is going to law school. He is a widower as Scout told us on page seven. “Our mother died when I was two,” is what she said exactly. He wears glasses, but they sometimes get in his way. “Atticus pushed his glasses …show more content…
He has impacted the lives of many people not just in the book. He impacted the life of Scout when he talked to her on the porch swing. This started on page thirty nine and ended on page forty two. The phrase that stuck out to me the most was when he said, “ Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). He said earlier to consider things from others point of view. Everyone needs to really take in how powerful this can be. Another time I noticed a great impact from Atticus was when the jury was out during the trial. The book says, “When it bonged eleven times” (Lee 280). This is saying it was eleven o’clock when the jury came back. To me, this shows that not everyone thought he was guilty. Atticus’s overall defending got them thinking. It got them thinking about the possibilities of the case. The jurymen who thought Tom Robinson was innocent had to be persuaded to make him guilty. This means something. The final thing that impacted me was when Miss Maudie said, “Did it ever strike you that Judge Taylor naming Atticus to defend that boy was no accident… Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that. And I thought to myself, well, we’re making a step- it’s just a step, but a step” (Lee 289). This impacted me because it is saying that whether or not Atticus was trying, he was making a change in the way people did things or at least making them
Atticus Finch is a lawyer and Scout and Jem’s father. “... when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law” (Lee 5). When the book said “To read law,” that means he is going to law school. He is a widower as Scout told us on page seven. “Our mother died when I was two,” is what she said exactly. He wears glasses, but they sometimes get in his way. “Atticus pushed his glasses …show more content…
He has impacted the lives of many people not just in the book. He impacted the life of Scout when he talked to her on the porch swing. This started on page thirty nine and ended on page forty two. The phrase that stuck out to me the most was when he said, “ Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). He said earlier to consider things from others point of view. Everyone needs to really take in how powerful this can be. Another time I noticed a great impact from Atticus was when the jury was out during the trial. The book says, “When it bonged eleven times” (Lee 280). This is saying it was eleven o’clock when the jury came back. To me, this shows that not everyone thought he was guilty. Atticus’s overall defending got them thinking. It got them thinking about the possibilities of the case. The jurymen who thought Tom Robinson was innocent had to be persuaded to make him guilty. This means something. The final thing that impacted me was when Miss Maudie said, “Did it ever strike you that Judge Taylor naming Atticus to defend that boy was no accident… Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that. And I thought to myself, well, we’re making a step- it’s just a step, but a step” (Lee 289). This impacted me because it is saying that whether or not Atticus was trying, he was making a change in the way people did things or at least making them