My literary Hero Atticus Finch

My literary hero is Atticus finch, a fictional character in the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird. The reason I chose him was because of his moral conduct. He lived in the time where racism was active, yet he chose to help the people underprivileged. He knew that it will consequently ruin his reputation for helping out the black, but he chose to do the right thing. He has shown the readers what people back in time should have behaved like.

Atticus, a lawyer and a father of Scout gets a case of defending a black man. However, it is very hard for him to choose because of the racist society. Atticus decides to defend the black man Tom Robinson because of his moral. Tom is accused for raping a white girl, but Atticus realizes that Tom is innocent. Atticus tries his best to defend Tom and gives various reasons that Tom is innocent, but loses a trial.

Another character in To Kill a Mocking Bird who can be well foiled is Bob Ewell, who accused Tom for raping his daughter, and gets mad at Atticus for defending black man and making him look like an oaf in the trial. He was a typical white person living in white supremacy. As you can see, people in the time were lot like Bob Ewell. However, Atticus was different.

He showed that many black people suffered from the fact that they are black. Atticus Finch did the right thing which was to stand on the right side when he knows that it will also put him in danger. My main reason for choosing Atticus Finch as my literary hero is because he was brave and did what he had to do. In other word, he was not a hypocrite like the many people back in time or even today. He is my literary hero: Atticus Finch, who taught me a great lesson.