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 in 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 tells a significant 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 that come from seeing things from another point of view, to always do what is right, and to be integrative with oneself. Henry Lafayette Dubose is an elderly woman who is ill and battles an addiction to morphine. Jem and Scout believe she's just a mean old lady who talks bad about her father all day but doesn't know he'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 looked up. His face was scarlet. After all those things he said about you, lady?” “He was, he had his own opinions on things, very different from mine, maybe… son, I told you if you hadn't lost your mind I would have made you go and read them. I wanted you to see something of her; I wanted to show you what real courage is, instead of giving you the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand” (p.149). This conversation between Atticus and Jem represents Atticus's way of opening his mind to see things from others. point of view. Atticus is worried that Jem will take his lesson in courage to heart because he wants Jem to take what he has learned…middle of the paper…with respect later. Similar to when the blacks in Maycomb found out that Atticus was defending Tom, they probably gained a new level of respect for him because it is not normal to see a white lawyer trying to defend a black person in Maycomb. Even though Atticus lost the trial, a good portion of blacks have full respect for him. Harper Lee used the character of Atticus to symbolize many different themes in the book. It allowed readers to fully understand what kind of person Atticus is and how he reflects on others. In the second part of the book, when Jem was twelve years old, he began to notice what a great role model his father was and wanted to be exactly like him. Seeing things from another point of view, doing what is right and being integrative with oneself allowed the reader to better understand the character and understand the moral of the book..