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as the financial manager of a law firm, Award-winning performance by Gregory
The Character
That Made a
Movement By Lyndsay Bennett
Harper Lee?s correspondence from the
mid-1950s touches upon everything from
politics and writing to religion and dating.
Her letters also describe her caring for her
ailing father, Amasa Coleman Lee, the
lawyer and newspaper man who was the
basis for one of literature?s most famous
characters, Atticus Finch. Harper Lee used
Amasa Coleman Lee in her book because of
the how he effected her life.
Who are Amasa Coleman Lee and
Atticus Finc
Lee was born in Georgiana, Alabama.
He lived on a farm in or near Chipley,
Florida, and he worked variously as a
The Real Story Behind
Atticus Finch the
fictional character from
To Kill a Mockingbird.
This is Amasa Coleman Lee
and Harper Lee
teacher and as a bookkeeper at the Flat
Creek Mill in Finchburg, Alabama, where
he met and, on June 22, 1910, married
Frances Finch, the daughter of the
postmaster. In 1912 the Lees moved to
Monroeville, Alabama. There Lee worked
representing the firm's interests in the Peck in the 1962 film adaptation, as the
Manistee & Repton Railway, located in the greatest hero of all American cinema. In the
nearby logging community of Manistee. In 2018 Broadway stage play adapted by Aaron
1915, he passed the Alabama bar exam and Sorkin, Finch is portrayed by Jeff Daniels.
began to practice law, mainly in Monroe
Contrast
County. Before Lee became a title lawyer,
Amasa Coleman Lee and Atticus Finch
he once defended two black men accused of
are similar because they are both lawyers
murdering a white storekeeper. Both
who defended an african american man.
clients, a father and son, were hanged
They were both lawyers in Southern
From 1927 to 1939, he served as a member
Alabama. The only difference is since
of the Alabama House of Representatives
Atticus Finch is a fictional character, so the
Lee also worked as the editor and
place where he lived was also a fictional
proprietor of the Monroe Journal from
place.(sexton) Also Lee was a great father to
1929 to 1947. He died in Monroeville, Harper Lee just like Atticus was to Scout.
Alabama.
Atticus Finch is a fictional character in They both did a lot of the parenting while
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "You never really working a lot.
of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird. A understand a person Atticus Finch
preliminary version of the character also until you consider was shown as
appears in the novel Go Set a Watchman,
written in the mid 1950s but not published things from his point of Amasa
until 2015. Atticus is a lawyer and resident view....Until you climb Coleman Lee
thanks to his
of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, daughter Harper Lee who wrote To Kill a
and the father of Jeremy "Jem" Finch and Mockingbird in a way that showed him as a
Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. ?Lee based the
character on her own father, an Alabama hero. He was seen as a great lawyer and a
lawyer, who, like Atticus, represented black even better father.
defendants in a highly publicized criminal
trial.?(2) Book Magazine's list of The 100
Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900
names Finch as the seventh best fictional
character of 20th-century literature. In
2003 the American Film Institute voted
Atticus Finch, as portrayed in an Academy