Have you ever experienced racism or inequality or due to ethnicity? If so, has it ever occurred to you how much injustice is happening in our society? In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” author Harper Lee encapsulates the ideas, experiences, and injustices of racism through her characters. Primarily through the biased case of Tom Robinson allegedly raping Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch, a small town hard working lawyer, takes upon himself the responsibility of being the lawyer in Tom Robinson’s surely inevitably losing case. Racial injustice further develops throughout the novel to the Finch children, Tom Robinson, and Atticus Finch, as they progress through times of inequality and hardships in the 1930s.
Atticus Finch is the father of two intelligent life loving children, Jeremy Atticus Finch “Jem” and Jean Louise Finch “Scout”. Inequality through racism seeks the children out and influences their childhood. “He’s nothin’ but a …show more content…
“I'm simply defending a negro” (100 Lee) Atticus Finch is simply accomplishing more than defending a negro he is showing the whole town and putting a perspective into place that race and ethnicity does not matter. “Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for” (135 Lee) Theese word come from the amusing and bipolar character, the Finch’s neighbor, Mrs. Dubose. Atticus turns his cheek, latter in the novel he comforts her as she endures the concluding breaths of her life. “I looked around. They were standing. All around us and the balcony on the opposite wall, the Negroes were getting to their feet. Reverend Sykes’s voice was as distant as Judge Taylors: “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.” (283 Lee) These words belong to narrator Jean Louise Finch and Reverend Sykes. This quote shows the pure appreciation and respect the African americans in Maycomb have for Atticus. Furthermore, he shows respect and does not discriminate others due to race and
Atticus Finch is the father of two intelligent life loving children, Jeremy Atticus Finch “Jem” and Jean Louise Finch “Scout”. Inequality through racism seeks the children out and influences their childhood. “He’s nothin’ but a …show more content…
“I'm simply defending a negro” (100 Lee) Atticus Finch is simply accomplishing more than defending a negro he is showing the whole town and putting a perspective into place that race and ethnicity does not matter. “Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for” (135 Lee) Theese word come from the amusing and bipolar character, the Finch’s neighbor, Mrs. Dubose. Atticus turns his cheek, latter in the novel he comforts her as she endures the concluding breaths of her life. “I looked around. They were standing. All around us and the balcony on the opposite wall, the Negroes were getting to their feet. Reverend Sykes’s voice was as distant as Judge Taylors: “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.” (283 Lee) These words belong to narrator Jean Louise Finch and Reverend Sykes. This quote shows the pure appreciation and respect the African americans in Maycomb have for Atticus. Furthermore, he shows respect and does not discriminate others due to race and