In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the love story between Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson is obvious. This is evidenced when Atticus is confronted by Scout about his reason for defending Robinson if it caused disapproval of him and their family from many, “...if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again”(Lee 76). First, this shows Atticus executing one aspect of agape—he acknowledged that he is connected to a man he barely knew and this connections would mean his inaction would be detrimental to himself. Indeed, if he were not to act in defence for his “brother”, as King would refer to people on earth being brothers to each other,
