What makes children think the attius
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Atticus was in a chair with a light and and a newspaper as if he were waiting for the cars to come.Atticus allows his children to call him by his name to set a sort of friendship and familiarity between him and the children. This says that his character wants to be a father and a friend to them. To explain this further when one calls another person by "father" or"mother" they will only know that person as such. But when one calls one by their name they are able to find out who this person is, what they are and who they are not just "mother" or "father". Atticus is like this because in the story you can see that the children admire him and look up to him but at the same time get along with him and speak to him as a friend. The children try to find out who "Atticus" is rather than just their "father". They want to find out everything they can about him but they are also comfortable with him. This says that by allowing his children to call him Atticus he allows them to know him as a friend and a father.To illuminate this further in the book To Kill A Mockingbird in chapter 30 when Heck Tate and Atticus were talking about Bob Ewells death and Tate wanted to keep it private and Atticus refuses and says "Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him...if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got."(Lee 196). This shows how much Atticus cares for his kids, how important they are to him and close they are and they've set this relationship and friendliness by calling him "Atticus" rather than father. For example if the story had gone and used father instead of Atticus we would never really know who Atticus is but we would know him as father. By making him known as Atticus we know who he is and we try to find out who he is. This reasoning is also behind why Atticus allows his children to call him by his name. He wants to let his kids be close to him, to know him and to look up to him this is why he allows his kids to call him Atticus rather than father. This says alot about his character and how wise he is as one. By letting his kids call him Atticus they become close and get an inseparable bond. That is why he let's his kids call him Atticus.