The Great Finch “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong—because someday you will have been all of these,” George Washington Carver once stated. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Atticus Finch is a very popular character. Atticus is very calm; he does not get worked up with stressful situations and he is not affected by what other people say or think. Atticus is a lawyer in Maycomb county and also a father to a boy named Jem and a girl, Scout. He does not care about age, appearance, or even skin color. Atticus is also not afraid to be himself and he is the same inside the house as he is on the street.
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Finch is also a very caring character because of the way he defended Tom before the trial. Tom Robinson was moved to the jail in Maycomb and the protect him, Atticus sat in front of the jail all night. He sat in front of the jail in case people would try to hurt Tom, which people did show up. When the mob appeared, Scout had managed to get them to leave. Atticus told Tom,” [There] gone. Get some sleep, Tom. They won’t bother you anymore.”(Lee 206). Atticus said that to Tom and sat in front of the jail because of the care he had towards him. Atticus does not want anything to happen to Tom. An additional example of how Atticus is caring is toward his impudent neighbor Mrs. Dubose. Mrs. Dubose is an insolent, ill-mannered, insubordinate elderly lady that is very rude to everybody. Although she is very mean, Atticus thinks of her as brave because of her courage to stand up to her morphine addiction. Mrs. Dubose says that when she dies she wanted to restore herself. According to Atticus, Mrs. Dubose is a rave lady who always speaks her mind and attempts to achieve all of her goals. Atticus said,” Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”(Lee 149). Atticus genially cares about Mrs. Dubose because even though she talks bad about him, she fights so hard to cleanse herself before she dies. She portrays pure
Finch is also a very caring character because of the way he defended Tom before the trial. Tom Robinson was moved to the jail in Maycomb and the protect him, Atticus sat in front of the jail all night. He sat in front of the jail in case people would try to hurt Tom, which people did show up. When the mob appeared, Scout had managed to get them to leave. Atticus told Tom,” [There] gone. Get some sleep, Tom. They won’t bother you anymore.”(Lee 206). Atticus said that to Tom and sat in front of the jail because of the care he had towards him. Atticus does not want anything to happen to Tom. An additional example of how Atticus is caring is toward his impudent neighbor Mrs. Dubose. Mrs. Dubose is an insolent, ill-mannered, insubordinate elderly lady that is very rude to everybody. Although she is very mean, Atticus thinks of her as brave because of her courage to stand up to her morphine addiction. Mrs. Dubose says that when she dies she wanted to restore herself. According to Atticus, Mrs. Dubose is a rave lady who always speaks her mind and attempts to achieve all of her goals. Atticus said,” Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”(Lee 149). Atticus genially cares about Mrs. Dubose because even though she talks bad about him, she fights so hard to cleanse herself before she dies. She portrays pure