To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee's ,To Kill a Mockingbird, is about a single father who struggles raising his two children, Jem and Scout, while defending a black man in a town who's majority of people are white. He is a respectful, noble, fair man. Atticus treats everyone equal , weather it's someone's race, age, or gender. Teaching Jem and Scout these same principals, so they can teach others. The children understand that a person can't judge another person by appearance . Atticus treats his children as if they were adults. In return Jem and Scout act back like adults with intelligence of the world. This novel demonstrates that Atticus Finch is a ideal father.Jem, Scout, and their fri ...view middle of the document...
Scout goes to school hearing people calling her father names such as nigger-lover. Scout comes home asking what a nigger-lover is and why he is defending one. "The main one is if I didn't, I couldn't hold up my head in town, I could not even tell Jem or you something to do."(75) Atticus explains to the Children that it is his job to defend people when they are in need. Their race, gender, or age can never stop him from being their lawyer. As being an ideal father, Atticus knows that if he turned down someone, his children would also turn him down as well. If Atticus as an adult sets a bad example, that would mean to Jem and Scout that it's ok.It's Christmas time and Atticus, Jem, and Scout go visit Uncle Jack, Aunt Alexundra, and cousin Francis. Francis and Scout aren't getting along so well, because Francis is saying offal things about Atticus. Francis says things such as nigger-lover and lady-whore. Scout gets fed up with Francis teasing her about her father, and punches him in the face. Uncle Jack calls Scout over asking her why she hit Fransis. Scout told Uncle Jack what Francis called her and her dad. Out of curiosity Scout asks what a lady-whore is. Uncle Jack wasn't sure what to tell Scout because she was so young. He didn't want her to no of such things in the world. Instead of Uncle Jack telling Scout what a lady-whore was, he lied. Atticus found out and was a little upset. "Jack! When a child asks you something you answer him for gods sake. But don't make a production out of it. Children are children, but they can spot evasion better than adults, and evasions simply mugg'em."(87)Atticus tells. Atticus tells his children the truth so they aren't shut away from the world. As the novel shows an ideal father knows that keeping one's children away from the world, enables that child to enter the world later on as the child becomes an adult.Everyday walking home from school, Jem and Scout pass up Mrs. Duboses's house. They don't like Mrs. Dubose at all. As they pass by, Mrs. Dubose makes rude and cruel insults to them, even when they're nice to her. One day Mrs. Dubose made Jem so mad her stomped all over her flowers till they were flat to the ground. To pay the dept afterwards, Jem had to go to Mrs. Dubose's house everyday after school to read to her for one hour. Scout would always came along with Jem because Jem was afraid of Mrs. Dubose, so Scout didn't want him to be all alone. Later after his debt was paid Mrs. Dubose died.Atticus told something about Mrs. Dubose he never Knew about. Mrs. Dubose was a very sick women and in order to deal with the pain she took morphine; she was a morphine addict."She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe … son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I wouldn't have made you go and read to her. I wanted you to see something about her. I wanted you to see something about her, instead of getting the idea that courage isn't a man with a gun in...
