Why did Atticus defend a nigger? What was the point of being the advocate for a
black man? It doesn't matter if their guilty or innocent, you can ceaselessly
and effortlessly convict the animals for their colour vice. You can even turn a
blind eye to the obvious truth. And so did the "people", the white, narrow-
minded, bigoted and hypocritical people of Maycomb.
The justification for why Atticus broke from the norm, and acted unlike most
others in his community, can be compared to the motive of the central character
in the novel, A Time To Kill, written by John Grisham. The comparative
character, a lawyer named Jake, also endangers not only his own life but his
family's, by defending a Negro. He is compelled to undergo such a risk as he
believes he is protecting an innocent man. Despite the fact that he is black.
Jake could not live with himself if he failed to give his utmost effort in
clearing the accused, Carl Lee Hailey's, name. The lawyer feels that it is his
obligation to humanity to do so. Similarly, the case Atticus accepts is
something which goes to the essence of a man's own conscience. Atticus is
unable to treat the underdogs of the town how the majority of people act towards
them. Clearly the people of Maycomb are narrow-minded, bigoted and hypocritical,
and Atticus Finch is not. Nothing can be done to make the prejudiced, perverse
people hear the truth. This dogmatic attitude does not occur exclusively
between the whites and the Negroes either. The community's unsubstantiated
stories about other citizens also demonstrate their heedless to the truth and
prejudiced natures.
Arthur Radley, otherwise labelled Boo, has for decades been maliciously
slandered, in the county. The people that have done so do not know Arthur, and
the reason they can make such judgments escapes me. When there was a series of
pets being mysteriously slaughtered, the consensus was that it was...
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