The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a family of three, including their black cook Calpurnia. They live in a town called Maycomb, Alabama. Atticus Finch, the widowed father, is a lawyer and is outgoing, kind and true to himself. This book is a very popular book in many states of America because it conveys a meaningful message. Atticus teaches his two children, Jem and Scout, to always do the right thing, no matter the situation. Harper Lee uses the character of Atticus Finch to teach values ​​and beliefs by seeing things from another point of view, to do what is right all the time, and to fit in with oneself. Henry Lafayette Dubose is a sick old woman who struggles with an addiction to morphine. Jem and Scout think she's just a mean old lady who talks bad about her father all day but doesn't know she's battling a morphine addiction. After Jem finds out about Mrs. Dubose's death and the gift she left him, he doesn't appreciate the perfect camellia and Atticus tells him that it was his way of telling you that everything is okay now. “A lady?” Jem raised his head. His face was scarlet. After all those things she said about you, a lady? "She was, she had her own vision of things, very different from mine, perhaps... son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your mind, I would have made you go and do it to her reading. I wanted you to see something about her; I wanted you to see what true courage is, instead of having the idea that courage is the man with a gun in his hand” (p.149). This conversation between Atticus and Jem represents how Atticus opens his mind to see other people's things. point of view. Atticus fears that Jem will take his lesson in courage to heart because he wants Jem to take what he learned ... middle of paper ... with respect later. In the same way that when the black people of Maycomb found out that Atticus was defending Tom, they probably gained a new level of respect for him because it is not ordinary to see a white lawyer trying to defend a black person in Maycomb. Even though Atticus lost the case, many black people fully respect him. Harper Lee used the character of Atticus to symbolize many different themes throughout the book. It gave readers a good understanding of what type of person Atticus is and how he thinks about others. In the second part of the book, once Jem was twelve years old, he began to notice how his father was a role model and wanted to be just like him. Seeing things from another point of view, doing what is right, and coming to terms with himself allowed the reader to better understand the character and understand the moral of the book..