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Ted Korolchuk
Mrs.
Feldhausen
8-23-95
If I could trade places with somebody, it
would be Atticus Finch, from the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper
Lee. There are many reasons I would
trade.
One of the reasons I would choose Atticus
is because he is more considerate than I, and has a much better temper. For example, if Bob Ewell spit in my face, I
would instinctively bash his head against the wall. Furthermore, when Scout beat up Cousin
Francis for calling Atticus a racial slur, I would have said, "Cool! Keep up the good work!"
Atticus is also kinder than I am. In the book he was a very nice guy, such as
when he invited that poor kid to eat at his house for lunch. That was very kind of him. I wouldn't have invited him in the first
place, as it was the depression, and I wouldn't exactly call the Finches rich,
either.
I would like to try life in his shoes,
because he was such an outstanding member of the community. Also, I would like to see what life was like
back then in the South. There are many
things I would enjoy seeing, such as the average citizen's political views, or
if the average citizen even had one. It
would also be fun to see what "technology" there was, although there
was probably not much. Lastly I would
enjoy seeing how people dealt with the low standard of living.
There are many differences between him and
me. One is that I have never been
persecuted. He was every day. That would not be fun. People wanted to kill him, which wouldn't be
fun either.
The other main difference was that he lives
during a whole different time and place.
The era of today is a lot nicer, materially, than back then, but there
wasn't so much crime, either, which leads me to believe that they were better
people. I would still like to try living
during that time for a couple of days, if only for the above reasons. I try to emulate his cool head, but I will
not do things, "because Atticus does it that way." He is a very good man in the book, and I
think that everybody would do well to follow his lifestyle.
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