Atticus Sacrifice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Imagine you are a father with two kids that have no mother and you are trying to protect them while you are risking your life helping others. In Harper Lee’s novel, To kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus is a father with two kids named Jem and Scout who are growing up in a world where racism is big. Atticus decides to defend a person of color named Tom who was accused of rape. Defending a person of color is a big risk for Atticus because if people get angry at him for doing it and hurt him there would be no one to protect his kids because they have no mother. Mark Twain and Andrew Cockburn also say some things that say why Atticus did something or what he has to put up with. Some main themes in To Kill a Mockingbird are love and sacrifice,

In To Kill a Mockingbird on page 203, Atticus goes to Tom’s jail to protect him from a mob and Scout, Jem, and their friend Dill come. Mark Twain writes in, Lynching Moral Cowardice, “No mob has any sand in the presence of a man known to be splendidly brave” (Twain 1). Atticus is being brave and standing up against a mob, even though they could kill him making it so Jem and Scout have no parents. Atticus tries to tell the kids to go, not wanting them to get hurt by the mob, but the kids stay wanting to help Atticus. Atticus does what he thinks is right, risking his life and he doesn’t want want his kids that he loves to get hurt. Jem and Scout love Atticus so they risk their life to help him and not leave the mob to himself. They all are sacrificing their lives by helping each other. Atticus loses the jury, and after Jem wonders why they lost and Atticus tells him why. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus says “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it-whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash” (Lee 295). Atticus tells Jem something that he believes in and he wants Jem to believe it too. Other people will not like people who think like that because they think differently. They will think that others should think like them because

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus loves his children and he needs to protect them from the outside world. In an article by Andrew Cockburn it says, “..to stop the selling of people, because each of those girls is someone’s child” (Cockburn 1). That article was talking about what happens today. People have been using people for slaves for a long time. They take people’s kids and use them as slaves. Someone like Atticus tries to protect his kids from bad people that might want to hurt them. He even tries to protect them from what people tell them. Not everyone has a good parent like Atticus. Mayella Violet Ewell has a father that doesn’t love any of his kids. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus tells Scout about Mr. Ewell and he says, “... when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains” (Lee 41). Mayella isn’t the only child Mr. Ewell has. All of his children go to school for one day eaver year and don’t go again. Because of the life Mayella has, she has no friends, but Tom Robinson, who would go to her house and do work for her, and be the only person that would talk to her. When Mayella shows her love to Tom by hugging and kissing him Tom tries to get out, knowing what would happen to him if someone found Mayella hugging him. When Tom leaves, Mr Ewell beats up his own daughter because he had she what she had done. Atticus isn’t the