Atticus Fairness In To Kill A Mockingbird

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“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it .” - Clarence Kelland To Kill A Mockingbird is one of the most prized and critically acclaimed books in the western world and is most likely read by every school in america, it deals with the racial politics in the 1930s and shows how people back then were changing from the gentlemen like generation to the generation we have today. Another lesson is of parenting, it tries to portray the good and bad of ways of parenting by showing other kids and how they and their fathers act or the good ways through Atticus, one of the major characters and father of jem and scout, in this essay i will cover the three major topics of Atticus, his fairness; the way he teaches and his honesty. His fairness shows by the way he acts to the kids in the book, he treats them with a neutral attitude trying his best to make them both happy or at least feel somewhat fine by making compromises and addressing them in different ways. The evidence of this is on page 7 where he made a compromise with scout about how the Ewells don't have to go to school and how they are allowed to hunt out of season. In the book it directly says this “Atticus and I made a compromise. If i agreed to go to school, then we could continue reading together each …show more content…

One of these ways is of trial and error or letting them realize their faults of their actions this is a great way of teaching because it makes them realize the fault they did and the begin to search for a way to fix it this teaches them how to take care of them self and to rely on somebody only when needed. The evidence of this is when he decides to not take scout to school at a young age but rather then let her brother take her this teaches jem leadership and builds trust between the two characters making them trust they can rely on each other but not just that but says that atticus trust the two not to get in

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