To Kill A Mockingbird Atticus Finch Quotes

Scout Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird is a young, vibrant, and playful little girl. She grew up with her older brother Jem, and was raised by only her father, Atticus Finch. Growing up Scout was raised by Atticus with a more hands-off approach. She did not grow up being taught the lessons of being a proper young lady and wearing dresses, she was a tomboy who wore overalls and climbed trees with her brother. Atticus is a huge influence on Scout growing up. The quote that he said to her, a now famous quote, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,” influenced Scout greatly throughout the book. Atticus read to Scout and treated her equally to …show more content…
Growing up with no mother, Scout had no real motherly figure to raise her the way most girls were. So from the start, Scout was inevitably different than most girls. But the biggest influence, the influence that made her special, and also different, was her father Atticus. My first impression of Atticus was that he was a very good and true person. For example, another very famous quote from the book, “‘Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. ‘Your father’s right,’ she said. ‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy … but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’” You could tell from that quote that Atticus was a person who was for equality and also against segregation, and I think that is why he didn’t feel like he had to raise his children to the same standards as most of the families in the town. Because of this, Scout had more freedom. She was allowed to get dirty and play rough with her brother and their friend Dill. She was able to read throughout her younger years and encouraged to practice writing if she was too hard to handle and needed to be well behaved for their maid Calpurnia. I could tell from the start that Scout was going to be a special girl, and I think I was …show more content…
The book started out centered around Scout and her childhood, but once the Ewell vs. Tom Robinson trial started, the story becomes evolved around that, even though Scout is still the narrator. From then on Scout started to act more maturely. For example in chapter 15 Scout says, “Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. Mr. Cunningham displayed no interest in his son, so I tackled his entailment once more in a last-ditch effort to make him feel at home.” This was when Mr. Cunningham was threatening Atticus in front of the jail cell and Scout stepped up and saved Atticus. What she said really shows how she has matured and learned to think before she speaks, and that considering what Mr. Cunningham would want to hear actually saved Atticus.
In the beginning of the book I pictured Scout as a lively and free-spirited little girl. Already knowing how to read and write before first grade suggested she was going to be mature for her age, and growing up with only her father, brother, and maid, she seemed as if she would be a little different than most girls. Being the youngest sibling, she was a curious and wild, and not as afraid of the Radley house as other kids. During the trail I could tell she was already maturing, and that she was going to mature even

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