It is his role to stand, defender of all people, and this is not the only time when he finds himself in this sort of position. Again, this shows how a law, such as nature’s law or even a personal law such as Atticus’s avoidance of guns, must sometime be bent towards a higher aim. However, in the name of public safety Atticus is willing to put this moral aside to achieve a higher goal: the protection of human life. Nature seems to have its own law which states that humans should not take advantage of their knowledge of machines and weapons in order to shoot animals, who have no such advantage. That is, nature is fair in what it has given all beings and using a tool like a gun to kill with allows him special privileges which nature never intended for him to use. Atticus dislikes handling a gun as it gives him an unfair advantage over all living things. The shooting of the rabid dog is an event that will go round a small town like Maycomb quickly, probably giving some people a more respectful view of Atticus and his family. Scout and Jem, in particular Scout who is younger and more affected by prejudice, have been going through a hard time at school ever since Atticus agreed to defend Tom Robinson in court. Therefore Atticus’s shooting of Tim Johnson is a discovery to Jem and Scout as a new aspect to their father of which they are proud. He is older than her peers’ parents and does not participate in some of their more active occupations such as playing football… He has never mentioned anything to his children concerning the fact that he has perfect aim with a gun, in fact he has probably never touched a gun in their presence. Scout considers her father an old man too frail and incapable of anything more than sitting around and reading.
TIM JOHNSON TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD TRIAL
Harper Lee compares the two passages herself during the trial through the narration of Scout, who seems to realise that the two moments in her life contain the same sort of suspenseful atmosphere, t o kill a mockingbird mad dog.īoth of the extracts are life-changing times for Scout concerning her personal point of view on life. Firstly, to the climax of the novel, the outcome of the court case when the jury announces that Tom Robinson has been committed guilty. This extract from Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” can indeed be related to several others in the book. The passage is also very effective in the sense of excitement, suspense and meaningfulness of the relationships between the different characters of the novel. However, in the case of the infected animal, Atticus proves Scout wrong and shows that he can achieve what he has to in this particular situation, although this is unfortunately not always the case in the novel. Atticus is clearly the saviour, the hero of the novel trying to kill and destroy all form of prejudice and racism in Maycomb, although this is very idealistic. Tim Johnson could be viewed as representing the prejudice in the novel, and how like a rabid dog it spreads through the Deep South.
The passage of the Atticus’s killing of the rabid dog is a very significant one in the thematic sense of the novel.
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