To Kill a Mockingbird
Why are the kids ashamed of Atticus?
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Scout and Jem are ashamed of Atticus because he's older than other fathers, and can't do all the things other fathers do.
Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. When Jem and I asked him why he was so old, he said he got started late, which we felt reflected upon his abilities and manliness. He was much older than the parents of our school contemporaries, and there was nothing Jem or I could say about him when our classmates said, “My father—”Our father didn’t do anything. He worked in an office, not in a drugstore. Atticus did not drive a dump-truck for the county, he was not the sheriff, he did not farm, work in a garage, or do anything that could possibly arouse the admiration of anyone.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
