Capable of loving everyone no matter what they looked like he had no hesitations in taking up defense of Tom Robinson. “Before I am through, I intend to jar the jury a bit - I think we’ll have a reasonable chance on appeal, though. I really can’t tell at this stage, Jack. You know, I’d hope to get through life without a case of this kind, but John Taylor pointed at me and said, ‘you’re it’.” (100) Atticus explains to his brother Jack. He believes that even though this is what his career is, the true tragedy is that something like this has happened in his home. When people discover that Atticus is indeed representing a person of color they started to talk. One day while in school a student called Atticus a nigger-lover and it deeply upset his daughter Scout. “You aren’t a nigger-lover, then, are you?” Atticus responded with “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody…” (124) This further shows why Atticus felt the need to stand up for Tom, and in that period of history, loving everyone was not as easy as it
Capable of loving everyone no matter what they looked like he had no hesitations in taking up defense of Tom Robinson. “Before I am through, I intend to jar the jury a bit - I think we’ll have a reasonable chance on appeal, though. I really can’t tell at this stage, Jack. You know, I’d hope to get through life without a case of this kind, but John Taylor pointed at me and said, ‘you’re it’.” (100) Atticus explains to his brother Jack. He believes that even though this is what his career is, the true tragedy is that something like this has happened in his home. When people discover that Atticus is indeed representing a person of color they started to talk. One day while in school a student called Atticus a nigger-lover and it deeply upset his daughter Scout. “You aren’t a nigger-lover, then, are you?” Atticus responded with “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody…” (124) This further shows why Atticus felt the need to stand up for Tom, and in that period of history, loving everyone was not as easy as it