Judge Taylor had come to ask Atticus to defend a poor Negro man named Tom Robinson from an allegation that he had raped Mayella Ewell daughter of Bob Ewell an At that point, Atticus Finch accepted the …show more content…
Judge Taylor even told Atticus that he had no hope of winning this trial, but Tom needed support. Tom did not want to go this alone. C. This would begin to tear down racial barriers between black and white citizens of Maycomb.
3. Atticus was a man with strong moral fiber and sense of justice, and it was against his character to let this injustice stand. (From the book, what quotes or examples can you give that demonstrate AF sense of justice? What about his reasoning behind why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird? How does that reflect his sense of justice?) A. He wanted to leave his two small children with a legacy of being a man of character. He desired to be remembered this way for generations. B. This would become something that Scout and Jem would be able to look up to for the rest of their lives. C. They would tell their children of what their father had so courageously done for the Robinson family.
This matters to anyone who’s faced with a situation and is having act on their sole courage when the deck is stacked against