What Is The Role Of Atticus Finch In To Kill A Mockingbird

Jean Louis Finch (Scout) is introduced and she explains her whole family and the roles they each play. Atticus is a lawyer, his brother goes to medical school, and his sister Aunt Alexandra stayed back to help run the landing. Atticus is making a successful living in Macomb by being a very accomplished lawyer. The entire family; Jem, Scout, Atticus, and their maid, Calpurnia, all live in a small house. Down the street lives a scary man who the children call Boo, he lives in a old run-down house. No one ever sees him and the whole town fears him. A friend named Dill visits the family over the summer and soon grows fascinated by Boo and convinces Scout and Jem to spy on Boo. One day they even get Jem to touch Boo’s house. The summer ends and Dill returns

home.

Scout starts school and the teacher seems upset that she already knows how to read. A boy named Walter gets Scout in trouble and in return she bullies him and smashes his face into the mud. Scout and Walter’s family have a talk over dinner about what happened. Scout is disgusted by the the way Walter eats! After school one day, Scout sees some tinfoil in a knothole by Boo’s house. She reaches into the knothole and finds two pieces of gum, nervous she runs home to tell Jem. On the last day of school the two check the hole and find an Indian-head. School ends and summer break is back. Dill arrives over the break as he did the previous summer, he and Jem grow fairly close, leaving Scout feeling left out. Jem and Dill decide to give Boo a note inviting him to hangout but Atticus catches them! They don’t follow through with that plan but instead decide on the last day of summer, to sneak out and look into

Boo’s window.

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After the boys sneak into Boo’s yard and spy on him, they are shot at and both flee the area, Jem’s pants get caught on a fence. He ends up leaving them and running with no pants on, the next morning they find the pants hanging and the rip sewn. Scout continues to dislike school even more this year then last. As they walk home, Jem and Scout decide once again to check the knothole and find it to be filled with cement. When Jem see’s Boo outside and asks him about it, he replies that the tree was dying. That night Atticus wakes the children and moves them outside because the neighbor, Miss Maudie’s home is on fire. The neighbors tried to help Jem and Scout stand back and watch as the house burned. When Atticus returned from helping with the fire, he notices a blanket around Scout. When he asks her how she got it, she can’t recall. They look around and see Boo, Scout almost vomits in fear. They realize Boo wrapped her with the blanket. Atticus has been hired to defend a man named Tom who’s black and is being accused of rape, the family realizes that Tom is innocent but isn’t going to win because of his race. Later on a rabid dog is seen walking through the streets and Atticus grabs a shot gun and shoots the dog directly between the eyes! From that point on Jem calls him “One-shot Finch.” After that, when they pass through the neighborhood as a family, and an old lady starts screaming at Jem. Atticus tells Jem to be polite because she is old and dying. One day the lady called Atticus a “nigger lover” and Jem lost his temper completely destroying her garden. As punishment, Jem is forced to read to the lady everyday for a month.