Mr Waugh and Miss Andrews – The Anti Hero Inside Of Atticus – 25/3/15

In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus is seen to be an anti-hero in many people eyes, there is many different reasons for this including him fitting into the idea of an anti hero being somebody who doesn’t conform to society, in this case being his views on racism which is completely different from the book tells us in the majority of the book, The classic example of this is Mrs Duboise who is the complete opposite to Atticus, this is shown after Atticus agrees to defend tom Robinson who happens to be a black man in court under the charge of an apparent rape that took place on a white woman, As Atticus sends scout and jem to help her, she changes in attitude and becomes nastier on them because Atticus defending Tom Robinson in a court of law. Also Atticus in my opinion is quite symbolic of a dog growling which is a representation of Atticus different views and his outrage against his society that he lives in being maycomb, This is represented in many ways but the most clever is when he use the opposite views of what he probably actually mean like when jem and scout are complaining about miss duboise actions towards them and despite this he says ” That shouldn’t take any notice of miss duboise, she is old and is only stating her opinion, it would nice if people where more open to their beliefs” this shows Atticus more moral side as well as he is teaching scout and jem tolerance for other people while is using his own ways to acknowledge the hate he is receiving, in various different ways.