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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.
Judge Taylor appoints Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. Although many of Maycomb's citizens disapprove, Atticus agrees to defend Tom to the best of his ability. Other children taunt Jem and Scout for Atticus's actions, calling him a "nigger-lover". Scout is tempted to ...
He is accused and put on trial for the rape of a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Atticus is assigned to defend him and stands up to a lynch mob intent on exacting their own justice against him before the trial begins. Tom's left arm is crippled and useless, the result of an accident with a cotton gin when he was a child.
Tom Robinson, right, played by Yaegel T. Welch, is questioned on the stand by Atticus Finch, played by Richard Thomas, in "To Kill a Mockingbird." “This is a wonderful character,” Thomas says.
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The local judge asks Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, an African-American accused of raping a white girl named Mayella Ewell, and Atticus agrees. This heightens tension in the town and causes Jem and Scout to experience schoolyard taunts. One evening before the trial, Atticus sits out front to safeguard Robinson when a lynch mob arrives.
Holland skips most nonmandatory events for that same reason: He does not want to take attention away from the other actors. Holland offered a little more insight into his mostly private life with ...