Understanding Atticus In the old movie The Breakfast Club, Bender is dangerous and this makes him memorable. He does things people normally wouldn’t do. For example do drugs or yell at a teacher. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the most interesting characters is Atticus Finch. Atticus is smart, brave, and wise. Atticus Finch is a smart man.
First of all he is a lawyer. To be a lawyer you have to solve puzzles and fight for someone’s innocence. The quote “Mr. Ewell can you read and write? ( ) shows the detail and thought he out into the questioning. Also Atticus never went to school.
His dad taught him, and he is still smarter than most the people in Maycomb. Lastly he taught Scout how to read before she had even entered school. It’s because of Atticus Scout loves to read. These are all examples of why Atticus is smart. Another good quality Atticus Finch has is that he is brave.
The first example of this is when he defends Tom Robinson. Its daring because Tom is black and every white person in town thinks whites are more superior to blacks.This ticks off some people in town because to have a white person defend a black person is out of line! Another example of why Atticus is brave is because he shoots Tim Johnson. Tim had rabies and when Atticus risked himself he saved the rest of the town from distress. The last reason is because he sat in front of the local jail.
He did it to protect Tom from the mob that were going to try to hurt Tom because the trial is the next day. These are all reasons why Atticus is brave.