In order to
understand how an author is positioning the reader in relating to a controversy, we have to
first identify the controversy. In this novel, the main controversy is 's decision to break the
Southern code of white solidarity and mount a real defense of Tom Robinson, a black man falsely
accused of raping a white woman.
Lee encourages us to strongly admire and
support Atticus's position in the controversy. She uses several literary conventions to do this.
First and foremost, she tells the story through the admiring eyes of Atticus's young daughter, .
Wisely, she also makes Scout an irreverent tomboy, which prevents her loving portrait of her
father from becoming saccharine. Scout is a smart, believable, and shrewd individual with a
child's clarity of vision whom we as readers grow to like and trust. If she believes in Atticus,
we are prone to do so too.
But we don't have to entirely rely on Scout to
prove that Atticus is an exemplary human being. Other people whose word...
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