Atticus Finch knows he is going to lose but takes it on the shoulder and does what he knows is the right thing.
The most moving scene, to my mind of the movie version, is when Gregory Peck is sitting on the porch in his rocker and his young daughter asks him "Atticus, do you defend niggers?"
He takes off his eye-glasses and rubs his eyes and tells her, "Scout, don't say Nigger. It's common."
You have to be southern to know that being called common is worse than any other name calling.
I didn't know that, being a Yankee and all (well, Californian, whatever that makes me).
Agreed, that is a GREAT line!
Hmm. I'm a Southerner but I didn't know what "common" was. Geuss I'm not a very Southerner. :<