What Is Atticus Finch's Experience In To Kill A Mockingbird

Bonding with the audience demands particular elements found in knowledge, diction or shifts to transcend the words. Yet for the text, as a whole, to act as bridge from writer to the reader, then the personal experience obtained throughout the writer's life serves to add the final step of emotion and internal thought essential to a connection. Atticus Finch resides in Maycomb County as a reputable lawyer who conducts himself with humble respect and encourages within his children “fighting with your head” to make the better choice as “the one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience” (Lee 63). Through this lifestyle he had garnered respect from most of Maycomb as well as gained their complete trust. This is why Judge Taylor saw Finch as the only one fit to defend Tom Robinson, and also why he accepted regardless of the backlash that would be directed towards him and his family. Finch views the Robinson case as one he “couldn’t hold his head up in town” if he …show more content…
King could pull from “painful experiences” such as watching “ominous clouds of inferiority” form in his daughter’s mind when she is faced with the crippling discrimination painfully plaguing the entirety of his audience (King 207). Any lack of experience in such a situation denies the chance to share anything save knowledge with an audience and even credibility would suffer. Boland writes of an Irish kid who was“nearly an English child” as their memories of their own country, and seemingly own identity, were then lost as “colours...faded out so the red...was underwater coral” (Boland 989). This analogy symbolizes how the replacement of one’s real views will erase the value of their personal essence. Forgoing personal experiences would leave an empty individual view. The absence of which the audience would then notice and choose not to be connected with the