Atticus Being A Hero

Not all heroes wear capes and sometimes being a hero can come from standing up for something you believe in. In the book to kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus is given the job to stand up for a black man in court in the time of racism and segregation of people. This book also takes place in the south during the Jim Cow law times, when things where very different. In the videos that was watched about the laws it shows segregation between the blacks and whites. Meaning whites hated black and black had little to no rights. Tom Robinson in this story is convicted and accused of raping a white girl. Based on the color of his skin the odds of being proven innocent where slim to none. Atticus, the father of the kids Scout and Jem, in the book takes on the job of defending and standing up for what he believes in, even though it is against what everyone in the …show more content…
When Atticus first gets the case he starts to it very serious and tries to defend Tom with the full of his ability. When explaining to scout how he was going to try but also knew he had no chance of winning he says “in our courts, when it 's a white man 's word against a black man 's, the white man always wins.”(Lee 294) Atticus believes that everyone is equal and loves everyone the same. He is trying to set a good and far example for his kids by trying his best to help everyone he can and not contribute to the racism and diversity rules that the whites of the town seem to be abusing. This alters Scout’s idea of what kind of person she wants to be one day. She says she wants to be in “her father’s world” more then the “southern lady”. With Atticus standing up for the things he believes in and enforcing his morals he does a good thing for the black community in Maycomb and for his children’s