How Is Atticus Finch A Selfless Man

Have you ever been given a job that you couldn’t turn down because you knew that something bad would happen if you didn’t take it…? Atticus did. The kind father from Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird Was given the job to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, who was accused of rapping a white girl. As a lawyer, as good as Atticus was, he took the job and took Tom to trial. In this paper you will explore the character Atticus Finch, his family, job, and role in this story.
Atticus Finch is a selfless man. Within the story we read the scene where Atticus is willing to stick up for an innocent black man. In that time period, the 1930s, that was a very uncommon thing, even if he was innocent. He sits in front of a prison in the middle of the night when he knew that people were coming to kill Tom Robinson. “Atticus stepped back and looked up. ‘They’ve gone,’ he said. ‘Get some sleep,Tom. They won’t bother you any more”(206). This quote tells you
Judge Taylor, the one at Tom’s trial, had picked Atticus to defend Tom, because he knew that Tom was innocent, and that Atticus would do everything in his power to make the jury question the case. Which would give Tom a fair chance at going free. Though he didn’t, you can tell that the jury fought over it because it took them several hours to come to a verdict. His children, Scout and Jem, respect him for many things- other than being their father. He calmly handles situations and easily finds a resolution for them. He’s fair at his decision making. He has more to his history that he lets on. When Atticus was younger he had a nickname: “Ol’ One-Shot”. As Miss Maudie said to the kids, “... if he shot fifteen times and hit fourteen doves he’d complain about wasting ammunition”(129). That was how good he was. Though he stopped, and Miss Maudie said it was because he thought it was unfair to hold that much power over a living thing. Now that you have seen his