Analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird by Jean Louise Scout Finch - Assignment Example

Dill lives in Mississippi but his vacations were in Maycomb. Atticus is the main character of the story. He is a man of strong moral value. He had a great sense of patriotism. He was against the custom of racism which existed in his society. He instilled in his children a great sense of equality. He set an ideal example for them by fighting the case of a black man for which he had to stand against his own society in order to support justice and truth. He was a great guide and teacher for his children and an extraordinary human being as well.

 The story seems to say that Atticus is Atticus because of Maycomb. "He liked Maycomb, he was Maycomb County born and bred; he knew his people, they knew him. . . ."  Later, when Atticus is striving to console Jem about the culpable judgment in the Tom Robinson case he tells Jem that they are going to live in Maycomb after the case is over. Though so, Maycomb is no ecstasy; no paradise on the hill, no place one can celebrate without worries and melancholy. It is living in Maycomb, working at law there, that we see Atticus as the man that he is.

 Atticus decides to work on a case linking a black man, Tom Robinson, who has been blamed of raping a very meager white girl named Mayella Ewell, he was of the believe, “Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand”. Mayella Ewell is a member of the disreputable Ewell family, who belong to the level of Maycomb society that people call as "trash." The Finch family faces cruel disapproval in the greatly bigoted Maycomb because of Atticus's choice to protect Tom.

But, Atticus persist on going through with the case because his principles could not let him do otherwise. He knows Tom is blameless, and also that he has almost no chance at being found not guilty because the white adjudicators will never consider a black man over a white woman. In spite of this, Atticus wants to disclose the fact to his fellow townspeople, depict their racism, and support them to picture the option of racial fairness.