In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is a lawyer with two young children, Jem and Scout. Scout loves to fight and hates when people try to make her act more like a girl. Jem, her older brother, plays football and begins to struggle with growing up, not wanting to spend much time with his little sister. The children's mother dies when they're young, so Atticus, although busy with his work, still tries to take care of his children and to teach them important lessons about life. Two important lessons in the book are tolerance and self-control, which he teac…
