Atticus Finch's Strengths And Weaknesses Essay

Atticus Finch’s Strengths and Weaknesses Regardless of one’s personality and actions, every character possesses some type of strength and weakness that make them unique. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Nelle Harper Lee the character Atticus Finch is a father who has been known for his appreciable qualities as a father, but he is not the perfect father. Atticus does have an inferior trait that devalues his status as the perfect father. When analyzing Atticus’s character, comparing his strengths and weaknesses show how much of a distinctive character he really is. Regardless of Atticus Finch’s few imperfections, overall he possesses many strengths that make him a great father. Although Atticus is an exceptionally effective father who…

is able to see this when Jem, Scout’s brother, is describing him to their friend, Dill: “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained – if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” This quote is a depiction of the guilty…

To begin, I feel my vocabulary has expanded throughout my writing as I have attempted to use strong verbs rather than weak verbs along with trying to use vocabulary that we have learned in class. Additionally, I feel my ability to identify and explain rhetorical strategies has immensely improved while comparing my To Kill a Mockingbird Speech Analysis and Documentary Rhetorical Analysis essays. For example, in my analysis on Atticus Finch’s speech I only used appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos.…