Miss Maudie In To Kill A Mockingbird

He is always available to give advice to his children, even if they made a major mistake, because he wants them to have discipline. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch shows this with his advice, his actions and his respect towards his children, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, and Jem Finch.
Atticus teaches his children throughout the novel with his words of advice. This leads to Scout and Jem becoming more obedient. Atticus gave Jem and Scout air-rifles for Christmas. Because of this Atticus tells them that they can “shoot all the blue jays they want” but that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119). Later in the book Miss Maudie, their neighbor, tells the children Atticus is right because mockingbirds are innocent. Because Atticus told them this they didn’t shoot a mockingbird with their air-rifles, figuratively and literally. Scout would frequently start fights, after one such fight Atticus tells her to “hold [her] head high and keep [her] fists down; he tells her to never “let
He tells Scout that “you never really understand someone until you consider their point of view” and that if she does “[she will] get along a lot better with all kinds of folks” (Lee 39). This quote shows his kindness, because it displays that he is always trying to look at the other’s points of view. This validates his kindness since he takes the effort to not offend people. In the eleventh chapter of “To Kill a Mockingbird” Mrs. Lafayette Dubose, an old lady living in the Finch’s neighborhood, insults at Scout and Jem whenever they pass by. After one of these incidents Atticus just tells her that she “[looks] like a picture” (Lee 133). Even though Mrs. Dubose is insulting his children, he replies with good manners, and compliments her. Because of Atticus’s decisions his children have an outstanding role model to look up to, which leads them to becoming more