Essay on Analysis Of Harper Lee 's ' Kill A Mockingbird '
The integrity Atticus attains portrays his respect for all people’s welfare. The setting of the novel is in Alabama put into context during the 1930s. The values of society during this time was of great racial discrimination due to the Jim Crow Laws which buttressed the belief that ‘Blacks’ were innately intellectually and culturally inferior to Whites. Atticus portrays his morality as he agrees to defend Tom thus challenging the institutionalised anti-black racism from the Jim Crow Laws. This is highlighted through the characterisation “if I didn 't I couldn 't hold up my head in town, I couldn 't even tell you or Jem not to do something again… every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one 's mine, I guess.” The mere fact that Atticus…