Would you want Atticus as your father? Explain your answer with support from the text.

This question has no right or wrong answer and calls for your opinion. I think Atticus would have been a great dad, although, I prefer my own. Every child should have to answer to their parents for poor decisions.... Atticus fill this role.

“What are you doing with those scissors, then? Why are you tearing up that newspaper? If it’s today’s I’ll tan you.”

“Nothing.”

“Nothing what?” said Atticus.

“Nothing, sir.”

“Give me those scissors,” Atticus said. “They’re no things to play with. Does this by any chance have anything to do with the Radleys?”

“No sir,” said Jem, reddening. “I hope it doesn’t,” he said shortly, and went inside the house.