Why does the word of an honest man sometime go unnoticed? Martin Luther King Jr. once expressed “The ultimate tragedy is not the opposition and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people.”. In a town where the common opinion and mindset is a preset prejudice of racism, the smaller unheard of belief that is more accurate gets turned down. Atticus Finch, a man who is brave enough to accept a case he know he is going to lose to prove a point. Equally important, someone who stands up to those who want to hurt him to protect others. And lastly, the character that goes up in front of an entire town with opposition thoughts that could get him killed which symbolically displays the most courageous person that were to
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In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee suggests the prejudice attitudes of most citizens in Maycomb affect Atticus by motivating him to share and spread his substantive grip on reality in hopes to change the common man's …show more content…
"You know, I'd hoped to get through life without a case of this kind, but John Taylor pointed at me and said 'You're It.”. Atticus explains to us that he knew he would have to accept defeat with the result of the case. Some major traits of Atticus shine through here in the aspect that he was not afraid to take the case prior to knowing the end result of a loss. Equally Important this displays to the reader how brave Mr.Finch is and how his beliefs are not waiverable. Furthermore when Uncle Jack asks him why he took the case Atticus responds with the point of him not being able to face his children if he didn’t, moreover when he tells us that he does not want them to grow up with “Maycomb’s usual disease.”. Maycomb’s usual disease being racism and prejudice that he does not want Jem and Scout to fall victim to because of its almost poisonous results within the townspeople. Although losing the case in the end, Atticus got to show the town his strong beliefs that are much more accurate than their preset prejudice towards the African Americans at that time. Additionally this could’ve been another main motive for Atticus to defend Tom because it gave him a small attempt in which he could speak in front of the people of Maycomb and get his point across about their incorrect regards
In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee suggests the prejudice attitudes of most citizens in Maycomb affect Atticus by motivating him to share and spread his substantive grip on reality in hopes to change the common man's …show more content…
"You know, I'd hoped to get through life without a case of this kind, but John Taylor pointed at me and said 'You're It.”. Atticus explains to us that he knew he would have to accept defeat with the result of the case. Some major traits of Atticus shine through here in the aspect that he was not afraid to take the case prior to knowing the end result of a loss. Equally Important this displays to the reader how brave Mr.Finch is and how his beliefs are not waiverable. Furthermore when Uncle Jack asks him why he took the case Atticus responds with the point of him not being able to face his children if he didn’t, moreover when he tells us that he does not want them to grow up with “Maycomb’s usual disease.”. Maycomb’s usual disease being racism and prejudice that he does not want Jem and Scout to fall victim to because of its almost poisonous results within the townspeople. Although losing the case in the end, Atticus got to show the town his strong beliefs that are much more accurate than their preset prejudice towards the African Americans at that time. Additionally this could’ve been another main motive for Atticus to defend Tom because it gave him a small attempt in which he could speak in front of the people of Maycomb and get his point across about their incorrect regards