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| Type of paper: | Essay |
| Subject area: | Other |
| Academic level: | College |
| Style: | Other |
| Size: | 28.5 kB |
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2376 words/9 pages
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| Author: | Bari Dudley |
| Date submitted: | 2008-11-21 20:22:14 |
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5.00 / 3
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Both Atticus Fince and Mr . Fielding are both in a time in history when their culture was dominant but where they did not subscribe to its ideology . Atticus , despite immeasurable odds , fights to defend Tom Robinson in an impossible case in which he ends up losing . But Atticus is no dreamy optimistic . He knows what faces him but the promise of The Constitution as well as desire to serve as an important role model for his children , is what is most important to him . And in the end , he does not , and the reader is made to feel that he will never , submit to the herd mentality concerning racial superiority . Mr . Fielding , in 1940 's India , is in the middle of their right for decolonization and to have a country of their own . Mr . Fielding has neither time nor desire to identify himself with his own heritage and country in order to submit his will over the people of India . He cares little about class , race and the impediments that the two are supposed to place on a person 's friendships . Atticus must fight his own society in order to give Tom Robinson a fair trial , or as fair as Atticus can provide . But since he does not require the cheer of the crowds and approval from the town , but is guided by faith and a strong sense of right and wrong . Mr . Fielding is the same to a degree and for a good portion of A Passage to India . He cares nothing for social or ethnic classes and identifies with people as individuals instead of what class or race they belong to and loses friends because of it . Atticus Fince , in Harper Lee 's To Kill a Mockingbird is the quintessential hero . He is a man of strength in a time when many others have submitted the herd mentality of blaming their troubles , brought on by the Great Depression , on the minority within their society . Atticus is hard to pinpoint but as it is said in the book "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it (Lee , 1999 , p . 35 ) Atticus is aware of the situation that he is in . He is at the center of a racially charged atmosphere in 1930 's South . he is given the impossible task of defending a black man against the charge of raping a white woman , despite the lack of credible evidence as well as the believability of the defendant and her father . Atticus knows in his heart that there is little chance of winning the case and he knows that the sentence for a black man raping a white woman is life in prison or even death . Finch also knows that he is a father , a single parent in charge of two young and impressionable children who are in danger of submitting to the prevailing ideology about African Americans and perhaps all minorities... |
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