Atticus Finch character in the novel kill a nightingale
Kill a Mockingbird
Author
Nelle Harper Lee (Monroeville, Alabama, April 28, 1926-Ibídem, February 19, 2016) was an American writer known for her novel to kill a nightingale (To Kill A Mockingbird, 1960), winning work of the Pulitzer Prize, and that It was his only work published for 55 years until the publication in 2015 of VE and put a sentry (Go, set to Watchman), but which was previously written by the author (in the mid -fifties) and that it is actually the First draft of your first novel. Publication date: July 11, 1960
General argument
This novel is narrated from the point of view of a six -year -old girl named Jean Louise Finch or better known as Scout. Her older brother is Jeremy Finch (JEM), and her father is Atticus Finch, who is the renowned and respected lawyer of the city of Maycomb. The story takes place from 1930, which is the time of great depression, and that is why it has as a center and pretext a case of racism and social injustice against Tom Robinson, a black accused of raping Mayella Ewell which is a young woman White Woman of the city of Maycond. A population full of stereotypes and social prejudices.
Also, there is the part of the novel in which the children Scout, Jem and Dill (which only comes to the town during the summer), are fascinated by the story of a mysterious figure who lives in the Radley mansion, which passed daily to go to school. These children spent most of the time curlying through the Radley’s house, because they wanted to know the true identity and the hidden mystery behind Boo Radley.
On the other hand, Atticus has to defend Tom Robinson during the trial, and despite all the prejudices, threats and bad looks by the people decides to move forward because he believes in true justice. As a result, their children are harassed at school. In spite, that Atticus manages to have all possible evidence to show Tom’s innocence, he ends up being guilty of rape and Atticus takes a threat from Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father, for the humiliation that caused him In front of all during the trial.
One night on the last day of October, Scout and Jem decide to get out of her house, Scout had a ham costume that made it difficult to walk and her brother had to help her with that. After a while of stumble, Jem is attacked by a man, who turns out to be Bob Ewell, and his intention was apparently to kill him but then another figure intervenes in the scene that manages to rescue Jem, and it is Boo Radley. The children manage to get home and JEM is treated by a doctor and after learning that Bob had died after being stabbed by a knife, the sheriff and Atticus decide that it would not be fair to blame Jem or Boo for his death and end up saying saying that his death was caused to stick the knife during a fall.
Main characters
Jean Louise ´´scout´´ Finch
She is a girl who is responsible for narrating the whole story from her point of view, she has an older brother to what Jem’s call and her father is the respected lawyer of the city of Maycomb, Atticus Finch. Her mother died barely when she was two years old, so she was raised by her father, who was against social pressure and hypocrisy. Likewise, we can see that she is a girl who likes to play with her brother in the courtyard, she doesn’t like to wear dresses, she is open (she doesn’t fear what she thinks) and does not always understand the subtleties social. She was also categorized as a marimacho for her and dressing ways of acting.
At the beginning of the story we can note that she is an innocent girl who loves to read, then she and her brother know a child, Dill, and spent summer telling stories and talking about books in her booth. As the novel progresses, she witnesses, especially Tom Robinson’s judgment and from here all the faith and goodness she felt for the people of the town were tested, because she had never experienced something like that. But in the end, she develops a more adult perspective that allows her to appreciate the goodness of people and whatever the evil she finds, she will keep her awareness without becoming cynical.
Atticus Finch
He is Scout’s father and Jem, he is responsible for raising them in a way to encourage them to be empathic and fair. Also, he shows himself as a father who treats his children equally despite the fact that his daughter Scout was very claimed to be more feminine, because at that time there was a lot of machismo and the image of the image of the woman. He became a great lawyer after having studied laws in Montgomery and then returned to Maycomb to exercise his career.
During the story, he agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man. Although he was criticized for defending Tom at the trial, he was tired of all roial prejudices entrenched in the city, and just wanted to seek justice for everyone. Her wife died barely when Scout was two years old and had known her the first time they chose her for the State Legislature.
Jeremy Finch (JEM)
He is Scout’s older brother. During the novel he shows a quiet character and who cares a lot about his sister.
Arthur "Boo" Radley
At the beginning of the story, he believes that he is the villain for all the stories that had told the children about this character who lives locked in the mysterious radley house. While he develops the story, he leaves gifts to Scout and Jem, and on one occasion they save their lives. He turns out to be a good person who was emotionally damaged by his cruel father.
Dill (Charles Baker Harris)
Scout and Jem’s friend who comes to Maycomb’s town during the holidays and stays at his aunt’s house, is small in stature and is an adventurer. He is fascinated with the story of Boo Radley and challenges Jem to play the Radley mansion.
Calpurnia
She is the Cook of the Finch family, and occasionally she has discussions with Scout to correct her on her actions.
Mayella Ewell
This woman has a miserable and lonely life. She is attracted to an African -American and for the prejudices of her society and the father of her, she accuses Tom Robinson of rape.
Tom Robinson
African -American accused of raping Mayella Ewell, he was taken to trial and despite demonstrating his innocence he was convicted as guilty.
Bob Ewell
He is Mayella’s father and was the one who accused Tom to rape his daughter. His character represents the dark side of the south: ignorance, poverty, misery and racial prejudices full of hate.
Places where the main facts develop the characters inhabit a fictitious town called Maycomb, where Scout describes it as ancient and fatigued. The grass grew on the sidewalks and in the square, the court building seemed to collapse, people moved slowly and took the time for everything, the days were long and sunny. In this town were places like:
The house where Atticus, Scout, Jem and Calpurnia lived. In this place the children grew and played in the courtyard of the house and their booth. The Maycomb County Court building. It was primitive Victorian style, and seen from the north presented a harmless picture. However, from the other side, the Greek Renaissance -style columns contrasted with the 19th -century clock tower, which housed a rough and little trusted apparatus. In this place the trial was held against Tom Robinson, who was accused of violating Mayella and was defended by Atticus Finch.
The Radley mansion. This was located in a closed curve to the south of the house of Scout and Jem. Here lived the mysterious Radley family where they had Boo locked in a basement and where the children made their mischief. II. Describe three similar aspects between the book and the movie and three different aspects (3 points).
Similar aspects different aspects
Tom Robinson died in an attempt to escape from prison both in the book and in the film.
In addition, the whole story of Boo Radley was the same as in the movie and in the novel: it only went out at night, ate live animals, looked out the window of the people at night and remained in the basement of the Radley Mansion Todo the day.
The actions with Tom Robinson, the black man who is defending, are also the same between the novel and the film. Atticus is asked to defend Tom Robinson, accused of raping a white woman. During the middle of the story, Atticus prevents the men in the county from taking Tom in jail. Similar to the novel, the case in court occurs, witnesses talk about the incident and Tom is convicted of charges, although both in the film and in the novel it is obvious that Tom did not hurt the woman. In the book, Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to the church with her while Atticus was working, but in the movie they omit this fact.
In the book, when Jem is going to take a look inside Radley’s house and tries to run through the door and his pants get stuck in the fence, so he takes them off and then look for them again that later that night. But in the movie he returns just after losing them.
A big difference that was almost impossible to ignore, was the absence of aunt Alexandra. Atticus’s sister, Alexandra, she was always on top of Scout and tried to act more like a lady. During the end, she became more like a mother for Scout trying to reassure her and telling her that Jem was not dead. I think Aunt Alexandra was a large part of the story, and I think they should have kept it in the movie.
In my opinion, I think the novel is better. I liked the novel more because it came into detail with all the characters and really gave me an idea of how they felt all. In addition, the novel had individual scenes that explained the story of a character and really allowed me to try to connect with this individual character. The movie had some of this, but I didn’t feel that I really knew the characters.
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