Atticus Sacrifice Analysis

To Sacrifice or not Almost everyday one decides to sacrifice an aspect of their life, but is limited to only so many on their behalf of their morals. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch sacrifice his identity, perspective, well being, and time for their beliefs. The book takes place over the course of the great depression where racism is a normal day to day behavior. Atticus, a lawyer who has been assigned to take on a case defending an African American man by the name of Tom Robinson. While knowing that the usual act of a lawyer being appointed to defend an African American, during the great depression, is to not try to defend the defendant, Atticus believes that he should give the same amount of effort to defend

Scout; Atticus’s daughter, concerned with the matter of how does her father finds that his actions are right; when the majority of the town finds is wrong. Atticus then responds strongly with that he could not live with himself or tell Scout and her brother; Jem, to do the right act if he did not take the case seriously himself. Atticus sacrifices his identity to save his kids from, “Maycomb's usual disease” which is racism. Growing up in the town of Maycomb surrounded by many people with racist views, furthermore, for The kids to be exposed to the views from close friends, classmates, and family members, Atticus is limited on so much of his time with the kids to develop their abilities to look past the disease. By having Scout and Jem look pass “Maycomb's usual disease” this increases their fathers attempt to persuade anyone's views to racial equality under the law. An Example of “Maycomb’s usual disease” takes place over the course of chapter 10 when Scout and Jem were outside of the house and spotted a suspicious looking dog creeping down the street, the dog is supposedly “the pet of Maycomb”. The dog was given a human name, Tim Johnson, who walked crazily down the street towards the Finch's house, The Finches

Scout Finch got into a misunderstanding, argument during class with her teacher, Miss Caroline, about why Walter Cunningham Jr. refuses to take a quarter from Miss Caroline. Atticus Finch once told his daughter about the Cunningham family, the family was poor but refused to take anything given to them for free, but when needed Walter Cunningham Sr. would pay off people with items such as firewood. Scout tries to tell Miss Caroline this, but instead blurted out that Walter Cunningham Jr. “ain't got a quarter at home to pay you back with, plus you couldn't use any firewood”, Miss Caroline was new therefore she was blind to the family's reputation. Atticus finds himself in a situation where the consequence in his sacrifice won't affect his own identity, but will sacrifice the identity of his family that could pass on for generations, Consequently, Atticus does not only sacrifices identity but drags the safety of his children, owing to Maycomb's love for racism shown by Maycomb's pet. Pets are loved and cherished by their owners, which shows that Tim, who represents racism, is loved and cherished by Maycomb which consistently drives the town do anything to save racism if anyone would dare to harm it. Racism