Atticus is a wealthy, upper-class white man whose only true conflict arises when he is asked to defend Tom Robinson – a black man – in court. These words leaving the lips of a black man hold considerably more value to me than hearing them from Atticus Finch. Du Bois speaks of a ‘sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.’ Du Bois, who succinctly explained in his 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk the way in which the black person was forced to live a conflicted life of “double-consciousness” in America. It was only as I got older and studied for a degree that I was introduced to W. It was profound to me back then, a meaningful message meant to change my world view in an instant.
Perhaps one of the most famous quotes taken from Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch tells young Scout Finch: ‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.’ I particularly loved this quote as a teenager reading To Kill A Mockingbird for the first time.
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