Atticus showed a lot of strength and dignity by resisting any sort of retaliation he could have made. He taught his son to care for others, no matter how filthy their sins are. Atticus himself is a mockingbird because sees the best in everyone. Atticus has a lot of innocence to him, he is a good man.
Although Bob Ewell spat in his face, he thought Bob was all talk. Atticus did not think Bob Ewell would go as low as hurting his very own kin but in the end, Mr. Ewell went after the little Finches to get back at Atticus.
Boo Radley is a mockingbird because even though the entire town spreads nasty rumors and lies about him, he is a true gentleman at heart. Atticus wanted to get down to the real reason why Bob Ewell died and the sheriff knew it would be a sin to give attention to Boo Radley.
Scout knows that Boo is innocent in the act that he has done. He is simply a mockingbird. The children feel a sense of belonging to Mr.
Boo does many kind things for the children such as leaving them little presents in the treehouse. In their time of need, Boo Radley was always there for his children, Scout and Jem. Atticus teaches Scout about the importance of exercising perspective, controlling her negative emotions, and defending innocent beings. He also leads by example and maintains his composure when faced with adversity. The children concoct many plans to lure Boo Radley out of his house for a few summers until Atticus tells them to stop.
Finch is a white lawyer in s Alabama who defends an innocent black man charged with raping a white woman. Jem died of a sudden heart attack at age On the night of the Halloween pageant Bob follows the children home and attacks them but Boo saves Jem and Scout but fatally stabs Bob Ewell. Thus, to kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search.
Press ESC to cancel. Ben Davis April 29, How is Atticus described in To Kill a Mockingbird? What words describe Atticus? To Scout, he explains the Ewells by claiming that certain crimes, from hunting violations to domestic violence, just run in poor families.
They were human waste. And yet, even there, we would do well to read the novel more closely. Although it features children, it is not childish; its charm, and its internal logic, is that Atticus is a hero in the eyes of his young daughter, not that he is objectively heroic. Perhaps his perfection was only ever as a father, and not as a civil-rights crusader. He teaches Scout and Jem a kind of radical empathy that he himself cannot sustain but that they might grow up to embody.
The surprise release of the book occasioned all kinds of speculation. Some people worried that it was the result of coercion, and amounted to elder abuse of a national treasure.
But a few people who knew Lee wondered if perhaps she was trying, if not to sabotage her literary legacy, at least to alter it, so that by the time she died, the white-savior version of Atticus Finch would die with her. Instead, in a surprising turn of events, Atticus has now migrated, as Lee herself once did, from Alabama to Manhattan.
By the time Rudin made his purchase public, Aaron Sorkin had signed on to write the script. Carter had been both an agent and a personal lawyer for the living Harper Lee; now, even more unusually, she was acting simultaneously as agent, lawyer, and executor of the Lee estate. For a book and a play that are largely about the moral high ground, the legal brouhaha unfolded in a kind of boggy moral bottomland.
For many readers, the book and its characters live with them as intimates. The story offers a reflection point for the moral dilemmas we face in our own lives. As if to prove the point, a colleague recently brought me a bumper sticker that makes me smile every time I think about it. It asks, "What would Scout do? Transform how you teach Harper Lee's classic novel with Facing History's multimedia collection, "Teaching Mockingbird. Written by Adam Strom. Visit my Website. At Facing History and Ourselves, we value conversation—in classrooms, in our professional development for educators, and online.
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