Standing up for others
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior, to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, and the struggle between blacks and whites. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and single parent in a small southern town in the 1930's. Atticus stands up for those who are not able to stand up for themselves.
Atticus stood up for Tom Robinson when they accused him of raping Mayla. He knew that he wasn't going to win the case, but he wanted to prove that Tom Robinson was innocent. Atticus's strong sense of morality and justice motivated him to defend Tom with vigor and determination, giving it all he's got with one mission in mind. "That boy might go to the chair, but he's not going till the truth's told" He wants the people of Maycomb town, whether they believe it or not, to hear the truth about Tom.
Atticus is also the only one in town that stood up for Boo Radley. He believed that all these rumors that were said about him by the neighbors weren’t true …show more content…
However, he was able to prove that she has a difficult life and was very lonely, and she was attacked by her father and not Tom Robinson. “Mayella looked from under lowered eyelids at Atticus, but she said to the judge: "Long's he keeps on callin' me ma'am an sayin' Miss Mayella. I don't hafta take his sass, I ain't called upon to take it."By being polite to Mayella, Atticus establishes how young and unintelligent she really is. She interprets common courtesy as sass, so she has not been the recipient of it before. Atticus goes on to establish that Mayella was more afraid of her father than Tom Robinson, thus trying to establish reasonable doubt that Robinson attacked
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior, to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, and the struggle between blacks and whites. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and single parent in a small southern town in the 1930's. Atticus stands up for those who are not able to stand up for themselves.
Atticus stood up for Tom Robinson when they accused him of raping Mayla. He knew that he wasn't going to win the case, but he wanted to prove that Tom Robinson was innocent. Atticus's strong sense of morality and justice motivated him to defend Tom with vigor and determination, giving it all he's got with one mission in mind. "That boy might go to the chair, but he's not going till the truth's told" He wants the people of Maycomb town, whether they believe it or not, to hear the truth about Tom.
Atticus is also the only one in town that stood up for Boo Radley. He believed that all these rumors that were said about him by the neighbors weren’t true …show more content…
However, he was able to prove that she has a difficult life and was very lonely, and she was attacked by her father and not Tom Robinson. “Mayella looked from under lowered eyelids at Atticus, but she said to the judge: "Long's he keeps on callin' me ma'am an sayin' Miss Mayella. I don't hafta take his sass, I ain't called upon to take it."By being polite to Mayella, Atticus establishes how young and unintelligent she really is. She interprets common courtesy as sass, so she has not been the recipient of it before. Atticus goes on to establish that Mayella was more afraid of her father than Tom Robinson, thus trying to establish reasonable doubt that Robinson attacked