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Maria
Teacher:
English
11/21/22
Atticcus Finch
Atticus Finch is the father of Jem and Scout Finch. Around the first eleven chapters
Atticus demonstrated have practiced the golden rule. He is an example for his children for
practicing and teaching his children. But not only his childrens, but also his teaching us that
beautiful lesson.Thats why it’s good to recognize some occasions in which he put this rule into
practice. For this very reason, we must put the golden rule into practice in order to be better
people every day.
In the first place, when Scout was complaining about a teacher embarrassing a poor kid,
Atticus taught her that the teacher was new in town and she couldn't be expected to outgrow
every student's past. Atticus himself told his daughter: “If you can learn a simple trick, Scout,
you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. 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”.
Also in this same chapter Atticus encouraged Scout to go to school even if it meant dragging her.
Atticus wants Scout to talk to her teacher. “I never went to school,” he said, “but I have a feeling
that if you tell Miss Caroline we read every night she’ll get after me, and I wouldn’t want her
after me.”
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In the other handAtticus demonstrated this rule was when playing with his children. Fon
example in chapter ten they said: “ Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty''. But later in the
chapter they tell us that he still played or practiced with his children: “Good Lord, Miss Maudie,
Jem and me beat him all the time”. Also in this same chapter he said: (“I’d rather you shot at tin
cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can
hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”). Later on they tell us that he was
referring to the fact that these birds are harmless to humans, since the only thing they do is sing.I
think he meant that it is unfair to kill someone who has done nothing wrong
In third place, in the first mention that I made of the book, in the second paragraph, I
believe that Atticus was teaching his daughter that she should not limit herself to seeing the
world from her point of view and that from time to time she should put herself in the place of the
other to understand it.For me, this is related to the golden rule, because we would all like people
to try to understand us by putting themselves in our place.In that same paragraph I mentioned
when Atticus wants Scout to go to school and then tells her that he never went to one. To me this
relates to the rule because Atticus wanted his daughter to have what he never had the opportunity
to have, he wanted his daughter to have an education that he never had and to me he is applying
the rule because it is put in the her daughter's place and thinks that this is the best option for her
future. On the other hand, in the third paragraph I mention that even though Atticus is old, he
still dedicates charity time to his children. From my point of view this is related to the golden
rule since Atticus puts himself in the place of his children, of a child who wants to share with his
father, and I would say that he makes an effort to please them in that regard.
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In conclusion, as we see, Atticus is a good man from whom we can learn many
lessons.This gentleman is a character full of empathy who, from my point of view, is ahead of
his time in some aspects. This is so because he did not treat people of color badly just because
others did, but he respected them, valued them and put himself in their place to defend them.
This man is definitely an example to follow for everyone who reads this book. No doubt he puts
into practice the golden rule of which we are told in Matthew 7:12, since he treats other people in
a way in which both he and we would like to be treated.