To Kill a Mocking Bird - Character Analysis

Running head: TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD: CHARACTER ANALYSIS
To Kill a Mocking Bird
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1TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD: CHARACTER ANALYSIS
Introduction:
“To Kill a Mocking Bird” by Harper Lee is a story spoken through the voice of the young
protagonist Scout Finch. She gets an insight of the world and the darker side of racism. She gets
to understand how good and evil co-exists in the society, when her father tries to lawfully defend
an African American man who is allegedly accused of raping a white woman.
Discussion:
The main protagonist of the novel Scout Finch matures throughout the novel. She through
her father sees the struggle to survive being the honest and the good one in the world full of
injustice. With the verdict of the accusation and the news of her father’s resignation shocks her
and she gets to know the gruesome reality of the disillusioned world that she had been living in
(Fitrisary and Thoyibi).
According to Macaluso, Scout’s father Atticus Finch was a lawyer and he is the
representative of moral goodness in the novel. He had been defending the African American man
Tom Robinson who had been accused of raping a white woman, merely because of his black skin
color. Atticus responses to the issue of race with utmost honesty and justice. He guides his
children and makes them aware of the consequences of conflict as a result of the trial. He was a
dedicated father who gave his children the freedom and independence to discover the world and
find solutions to the problems by taking proper just decisions. He allows them to find solutions
to the issues of class and race (Nahajec).
In contrast to this, the antagonist of the story had been the Ewells, responsible for
creating conflict among the other characters in the novel. He was the one who responded to the