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Atticus Finch is a fictional character and the protagonist of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird. A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel Go Set a Watchman , written in the mid-1950s but not published until 2015.
Atticus Finch is the father of Jem and Scout Finch. He is a lawyer who appears to support racial equality and is appointed to represent Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. The town disapproves of his defending Tom especially when he makes clear his intent to defend Tom Robinson to the ...
Atticus Finch, the narrator's father, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. The historian Joseph Crespino explains, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its main character, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional ...
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Gregory Peck played beloved father Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and according to his children, ... While Gregory publicly protested the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam, his daughter ...
Jack, her uncle and a retired doctor, is Jean Louise's mentor. Atticus' sister (Jean Louise's aunt), Alexandra, has moved in with Atticus to help him around the house after his housekeeper, Calpurnia, retired. Jean Louise's brother, Jeremy "Jem" Finch, has died of the same heart condition which killed their mother.
[1] [2] The show follows the story of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in 1930s Alabama, as he defends Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of rape. [3] Varying from the book, the play has Atticus as the protagonist, not his daughter Scout, allowing his character to change throughout the show. [4]
Atticus Fetch, a character in the television series Californication; Atticus Finch, a central character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird; Atticus Freeman, a character in the television series Lovecraft Country; Atticus King, a character in the comic series King of Spies by Mark Millar; Atticus Kodiak, a character in novels by Greg Rucka