Who is your favourite character in To Kill a Mockingbird and why? What makes him or her appealing to you?
Atticus. My favourite character in To Kill a Mockingbird has got to be Atticus. In the book, Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the Maycomb County, Alabama, and the father of Jeremy Atticus "Jem" Finch and Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. He is also a central character in the novel!
So what makes him so appealing to me? Firstly, he is a lawyer! I have always respected lawyers for what they do, the ones that actually care about justice that is. Also, law would be a career path that I might consider in the future, so Atticus serves as a role model.
His occupation aside, Atticus is perhaps the most honest and upright character in To Kill a Mockingbird. As I read the book and watched the movie, my feelings for him were almost alike; he was the ideal lawyer that trys to uphold justice even if it might cause commotion for defending a black man, the understanding father who time and again teaches his children values and sets an example for them, he is an expert marksman, but still choses to keep this fact hidden from his children so that they would not in any way think of him as a man of violence. He is highly moral, something many of us struggle to be and does not prejudge anyone, regardless of race or language.
So basically Atticus is a almost perfect man that many people look up to for advice, to see what a man of high moral truly is.
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