To Kill a Mockingbird Characters: Atticus

To Kill a Mockingbird Characters: Atticus

1. Well known: "Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town."

2. Clever: "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember It's a sin to kill a mockingbird".

3. A teacher: "You never really understand a person.. until you climb into his skin and walk in it."

4. Jem and Scout were proud of him: "Ain't everybody's daddy the deadest shot in Maycomb County."

5. Courageous: "he wouldn't shoot till he had to, and he had to today"

6. Older and different to other fathers: "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty" "he didn't do anything"

7. Consistent and couteous: "Atticus Finch is the same man in his house as he is on the public streets"

8. A father: "Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment."

9. A Good lawyer: "he's the only man in these parts who can keep a Jury out so long."