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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.
Atticus is a masculine name of Greek origin meaning “from Attica.” [1] [2] The name is often used in reference to Atticus Finch, a heroic lawyer who represents an African American man accused of rape by a white woman in a racist Southern United States town in Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
The titular mockingbird is a key motif of this theme, which first appears when Atticus, having given his children air-rifles for Christmas, allows their Uncle Jack to teach them to shoot. Atticus warns them that, although they can "shoot all the bluejays they want", they must remember that "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". [79]
According to The New York Times, the typed manuscript of Go Set a Watchman was first found, during an appraisal of Lee's assets in 2011, in a safe deposit box in Lee's hometown of Monroeville. [18] [19] Lee's lawyer, Tonja Carter, later revealed that she had first assumed the manuscript to be an early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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.
Atticus Finch, a central character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird; Atticus Freeman, a character in the television series Lovecraft Country; Atticus King, a character in the comic series King of Spies by Mark Millar; Atticus Kodiak, a character in novels by Greg Rucka; Atticus Lincoln, a character in the television series Grey's Anatomy
The New York Times reviewed Harper Lee's latest book 'Go Set a Watchman' — and its depiction of the beloved Atticus Finch is shocking. In the 1960s classic 'To Kill a Mockingbird', Finch is ...
The “Waltons” star now stars in the touring production of Broadway’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” opening in Kansas City on Tuesday.