To Kill a Mockingbird

chapter 1

Why do the children call their father atticus rather than dad?

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It's never really explained. My teacher said that if she could ever speak to Harper Lee she would ask her why the children do this. There's no real answer to why they call him Atticus instead of dad or father.

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