To Kill a Mockingbird:What do you think of Atticus Finch? Discuss his role as a father, neighbour, lawyer and as a human being.

Have a little read: ... Hannah Francis. To Kill a Mockingbird: What do you think of Atticus Finch? Discuss his role as a father, neighbour, lawyer and as a human being. Throughout the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee we see Atticus Finch from many different aspects such as a father, a neighbour, a lawyer and as a human being. Atticus is a widow who has brought up his two children Scout and Jem with his housemaid Calpurnia in the county of Maycomb, Alabama. Atticus is a respectful man and leads a plain, simple life as a lawyer. Atticus changes however towards the second half of the book when he is involved in a very important court case defending a black citizen. In the first part of this essay I am going to concentrate in detail as Atticus as a father. In the first couple of pages we find out that Atticus is a sound father as Scout says 'Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us and treated us with courteous detachment.' Some of the people of Maycomb disagree with the way Atticus brings up his children such as Mrs. Dubose but Atticus just advises Jem to hold his head up high and be a man. This shows that he is trying to bring up his children not to listen to what other people say about them and to act that they don't care. Atticus is shown as an old father in the eyes of his children because it says, 'Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. When Jem and I asked him why he was so old he said he got started late, which we reflected upon his abilities and manliness.' From this quote we see his humorous side not only his old side. The children feel that Atticus is not a normal father because Scout says, 'He did not do the things our schoolmates fathers did; he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the living-room and read.' Again this is just showing Atticus wants to or is leading a simple life. Sometimes in the book I feel that maybe Atticus acts like a lawyer to his children as well, because being a lawyer you have to listen to the two sides of the story and he does this when Jem and Scout argue. This