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Atticus Finch
Atticus Finch is a fictional character in author Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of 1960, ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. A preliminary version of the character also appears in the novel ''Go Set a Watchman'', written in the mid 1950s but not published until 2015. Atticus is a lawyer and resident of the fictional Maycomb County, Alabama, and the father of Jeremy "Jem" Finch and Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. Lee based the character on her own father, Amasa Coleman Lee, an Alabama lawyer, who, like Atticus, represented black defendants in a highly publicized criminal trial. ''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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Book Magazine's'' The 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 )〕 In 2003, the American Film Institute voted Atticus Finch, as portrayed by Gregory Peck in the 1962 film adaptation, as the greatest hero of all American cinema.〔
==Impact on the legal profession==
Claudia Durst Johnson has commented about critiques of the novel, saying, "A greater volume of critical readings has been amassed by two legal scholars in law journals than by all the literary scholars in literary journals".〔Johnson, ''Boundaries'' p.25-27〕 Alice Petry remarked, "Atticus has become something of a folk hero in legal circles and is treated almost as if he were an actual person".〔Petry, p. xxiii〕 Examples of Atticus Finch's impact on the legal profession are plentiful. Richard Matsch, the federal judge who presided over the Timothy McVeigh trial, counts Atticus as a major judicial influence.〔Petry, p. xxiv〕 One law professor at the University of Notre Dame stated that the most influential textbook from which he taught was ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', and an article in the ''Michigan Law Review'' asserts, "No real-life lawyer has done more for the self-image or public perception of the legal profession", before questioning whether "Atticus Finch is a paragon of honor or an especially slick hired gun."〔Lubet, Steven. "Reconstructing Atticus Finch." ''Michigan Law Review'' 97, no. 6 (May 1999): 1339–62.〕
In 1992 Monroe Freedman, a professor of law and noted legal ethicist, published two articles in the national legal newspaper ''Legal Times'' calling for the legal profession to set aside Atticus Finch as a role model. Freedman argued that Atticus still worked within a system of institutionalized racism and sexism and should not be revered. Freedman's article sparked a flurry of responses from attorneys who entered the profession holding Atticus Finch as a hero and the reason for which they became lawyers.〔Monroe H. Freedman, ""Atticus Finch, Esq., R.I.P.,"" 14 LEGAL TIMES 20 (1992); Monroe H. Freedman, ""Finch: The Lawyer Mythologized,"" 14 LEGAL TIMES 25 (1992) and Monroe Freedman, Atticus Finch – Right and Wrong, 45 Ala. L. Rev. 473 (1994).〕 Freedman argued that Atticus Finch is dishonest, unethical, sexist, and inherently racist, and that he did nothing to challenge the racist status quo in Maycomb.〔Metress, Christopher. "The Rise and Fall of Atticus Finch." The Chattahoochee Review; 24 (1): September, 2003〕 Freedman's article sparked furious controversy, with one legal scholar opining, "What Monroe really wants is for Atticus to be working on the front lines for the NAACP in the 1930s, and, if he's not, he's disqualified from being any kind of hero; Monroe has this vision of lawyer as prophet. Atticus has a vision of lawyer not only as prophet but as parish priest".〔 In 1997 the Alabama State Bar erected a monument dedicated to Atticus in Monroeville marking his existence as the "first commemorative milestone in the state's judicial history".〔"'Mockingbird' Hero Honored in Monroeville." ''Birmingham News'' (Alabama): May 3, 1997; Pg. 7A.〕
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