While reading through To Kill a Mockingbird it amazed me how much Atticus reminds me of my parents. Having grown up with both my mom and dad as attorneys, I definitely think I relate to Scout. I'm used to my parents comming home and talking about their trials, witnesses, or people on juries that were, quote from my mom: "easily swayed by emotion over fact." Reading about the trial in the story brought me back to the orange carpet and not so comfortable benches at the county courthouse that I have known for so long. Unlike Scout, I was never as interested in what was happening during the trial. I was preoccupied with coloring a picture or playing with a doll that I had brought along.
When I was around 11 I remember going with my dad to take your daughter to work day, and we toured the Juvenile Detention center. I rememberof telling myself that I would never ever go there. It wasn't so much my fear of getting in trouble as much as having to wear the hidoeus orange jumpsuit. Like Scout had described, I didnt understand how my parents could be fiercely trying to win a trial against the defense one miniute and speaking casually with them at recess the next.
Of all my memories of having attorneys for parents I think why the book connected with me so much was that my parents like Atticus are wise and always wanting to do the right thing no matter what. Atticus in his work as an attorney models the behaviors he expects from Scout and Jem, such as taking responsiblity for their own actions. Atticus expects his children to do the right thing. I believe my parents show the same morals at work as they do at home, which is makes me feel proud as a daughter much like Scout.
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