Reality In To Kill A Mockingbird

Where Fiction Becomes Reality There are so many ways that authors shape characters into fictitious fantasies that we as readers become attached to. The way the character act, speak, and think is what really gives the opportunity for the reader to become attached, it just depends on how well the author shapes them in those areas. Harper Lee does an extraordinary job in giving personalities to her character in her novel To Kill A Mockingbird. All of the characters in the novel reach readers in a different way. For example, the way Scout is young, yet also knows things like an adult would is one reason why many readers would say she is the best character. Or all of those who claim that Jem, the soft spoken older brother is the most important

He thinks way ahead of his time period in the sense that he already does his best to treat everyone with equal amounts of respect. Atticus lives in the south so valuing things like equality is not a common thing for white people to value. “‘You aren’t really a nigger-lover, are you?’ ‘I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody’”(Lee page 144). The moment when Scout is upset about kids at school calling her dad a “nigger-lover” is priceless because of the way Atticus responds to her. He states that he is most definitely a “nigger-lover” since he tries to love everyone despite their ethnicity. He also thinks that you should always do good even when those around you are pushing you to do wrong. This happens when he is Tom Robertson’s lawyer and all of the people around him are bullying him and sending him death threats, but he does not let this phase him. Atticus firmly believes that Tom deserves a chance at freedom, so he can take the threats with a grain of salt if it means giving that innocent colored man a chance in the courtroom. With this, it can also be seen that Atticus is okay with standing alone and that believing in what he thinks is morally right is more important than fitting in and that itself, is

His views on equality are correct and it is brave of him to spread his thoughts the way that he does because it was dangerous to defend black rights in the south during The Great Depression since that would cause all the white folk to turn on you. If you defended the blacks, they basically treated you as a black. Atticus thought colored people were no different than white people and he even goes as far as to defend Calpurnia in front of his own