Atticus Vs Batman

In To Kill a Mockingbird and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, both Atticus and Batman are viewed as villians in the beginning of their stories but that eventually changes as their story continues throughout both books. Towards the end people begin to see both Atticus and Batman as people who were only trying to do their best job to stand up for the people who had no one else to stand up for them. Both characters share a lot of similarities between each other and the towns reaction for each book were also very similar to each other as well. For both books, each character had people who always supported them and they also had people who were firmly against them and their actions. In To Kill a Mockingbird and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, …show more content…
They both just wanted to protect their town the best way that they thought would be best. Even though they were just trying to protect them there were still people who against them. In Batman: The Dark Knight, there were constantly people who were on both sides of the confrontation on whether Batman was a good or bad guy. “He is ruthless and monstrous….Frankly I’m surprised that there aren’t n hundreds more out there just like him.” (Frank 64). But there were people who still supported him.” He is just doing what the cops aren’t….. He is just taking back what is ours!”(Frank 64). The same goes for Atticus Finch, he was just trying to do his job by defending Tom Robinson. “Atticus was a lawyer, it was his job to defend this man.” (Lee …show more content…
Both of these characters find themselves in a position where they didn’t have their own town’s support in anything they did even though they were both just trying to do their jobs and save lives. In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns people feared Batman because he used violence to stop the criminals, while making the people of Gotham fear that he was trying to hurt them instead of saving them. The people of Gotham was so scared that some of the citizens in Gotham wanted to throw Batman in jail. As the new police chief took over, she stated “ ...my first act as police commissioner will be to issue a warrant for the Batman on charges of assault, breaking and entering, creating a public hazard.” (Miller 72). But as the time when by in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the town’s opinion started to change after he died because they realized that Batman was just trying to protect and help them when they were in trouble, which is proven when the news media tells on the ir, “ The spectacular career of Batman came to a tragic conclusions…” (Miller 197). The same goes for Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird . The town of Maycomb didn’t see him as a harmful criminal, but they did see him as a traitor to the town community and they also disagreed when he represented Tom Robinson. During the time of To Kill a Mockingbird it was a time when