How Is Atticus Finch Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

In Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the main characters is Atticus Finch. Throughout Lee’s book she develops atticus to be many things. A few of the many character traits he has are determination, intelligence, and how he is loving and caring, he develops these character traits by doing specific things that all relate back to the larger theme which is justice. A first characteristic trait of Atticus Finch is how determined he is, first in the Tom Robinson trial and secondly how he is determined through how he raises his children to show respect. The way he shows determination through how he raised his children with respect is when Jem ruined Ms. Dubose garden and she was going to make Jem read to her and Atticus completely agreed with Ms. Dubose that he do it. ““Why’d you do it?” “She said you lawed for niggers and trash” “She wants me …show more content…
A way that Atticus’ shows how he is loving to Cal when Aunt Alexandra was trying to get rid of Calpurnia, but he would not let her. ““We don’t need her now…” “Alexandra, Calpurnia’s not leaving this house until she wants to.”” Atticus loves and cares for Cal and respects her feelings and how much she has done for his family. He will not just let Alexandria get rid of her because she thinks they do not need her anymore. Atticus also shows his loving and caring nature for his children by showing and telling them how he wants better for them than what he had. When Scout didn’t want to go to school and she used the excuse that her father never went, but he still made her. Because although he is successful as a lawyer he still wants better for his children. He wants them to have better than what he had. That is the second trait that connects back to the bigger theme of of Justice because he wants to make sure everyone, such as cal and his children, are doing as well as they should