Essay On Atticus Is A Bad Father

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel that takes place in a old southern town, it depicts ahrd prejudice towards blacks, due to it’s time period, the 1930’s. The story features 3 main characters, Atticus, Jem, and Scout. Scout is comparable to an apprentice, and Jem is her older brother, Atticus is seen throughout the novel as a prudent, fair, and robust father who teaches his children valuable teachings, and takes the infamous attorney duty for Tom Robinson, a black male. Throughout the novel, however, Atticus clearly and continuously depicts poor fathering to his two children Jem and Scout. Addressing this claim, Atticus clearly is oblivious to his children's safety, he does not enforce his lessons upon the children, and as a result of the lack of enforcement his children do not translate or reciprocate the lessons into actions.
First and foremost, Atticus’s clear obliviousness to his children's safety clearly dictates that he's a poor father. Throughout the novel, Jem and Scout are clearly in the street or in other open areas in the night without any form of supervision. In the book during it stated , “I
Atticus lets his children roam around the streets of maycomb, without supervision even despite his the towns detestation against his family. Furthermore, his lack of discipline on his teachings is important also, he does not punish his children in any direct manner. As a result of his lack of discipline, his children do not or only rarely show signs of reciprocation and translation of his teachings into actions. All in all Atticus's clear lack of disciple, his obliviousness to his children’s safety, and their clear lack of reciprocation all culminate into the fact that Atticus is a poor