Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
In this essay, I will examine carefully the impact the story has had on the legal profession, an important component of the book’s story particularly since it has inspired much more legal scholarship than literary criticism (“Note” 1685). How has the book been used by the legal profession, and what does the story—and, in particular, its character Atticus Finch—represent to lawyers? I will argue that Atticus Finch speaks to the deepest of attorneys’ longings and insecurities: their desire for public respect and influence and for private balance and wholeness. For at least the past two generations, the book and film have attracted numerous individuals to the legal profession through their depiction of a gallant, eloquent, and courageous attorney defending an innocent man. Voted the number one movie hero of the past one hundred years by the American Film Institute, Atticus Finch bestows respectability and honor upon the legal profession. Attorney Richard Brust, assistant managing editor of the ABA Journal, has described Atticus Finch as the “epitome of both moral certainty and unyielding trust in the rule of law .
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