Atticus Finch

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and wants to keep them safe. Also, he teaches them lots of life lessons like not to judge or not to pay attention to mean, rude people. Scout tells how Atticus cares for her when she said "Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting anymore; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be" (121). This shows how strict he is on scout. Atticus is a great father to his kids.
Atticus is a really wise man. He is a lawyer but he did not even go to school as a kid. He also taught Scout how to read and write before she even started school. During the trail, he pointed out that Tom could not have been the rapist based on Mayella's injury locations. "The state has not produced one lot of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place" (205). Atticus points out that there is no evidence that shows that Mayella was even raped. Also he ...

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