To Kill a Mockingbird
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Random Question about Atticus
Katharine
Feb 08, 2012 06:56PM
I should probably just reread the book again, but did it ever say in the book if Atticus had served in WWI?
My sister thinks he must have (because he was a crack shot), but I don't think so because when I do the math; at the beginning of the novel (in 1933) he's maybe 47-48, so he would have been early thirties during WWI, but isn't he in law school in Montgomery during that time? We already did the math that Atticus had married his wife 11 years before in 1922.
Anyway, we are both probably over-thinking this in the extreme, but we love the book AND the movie so much and we kind of feel like we own the characters. :)
My sister thinks he must have (because he was a crack shot), but I don't think so because when I do the math; at the beginning of the novel (in 1933) he's maybe 47-48, so he would have been early thirties during WWI, but isn't he in law school in Montgomery during that time? We already did the math that Atticus had married his wife 11 years before in 1922.
Anyway, we are both probably over-thinking this in the extreme, but we love the book AND the movie so much and we kind of feel like we own the characters. :)
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No, he didn't serve in WWI. He was a "crackshot" because he used to hunt birds, and I'm sure he did other things as well, when his father gave him his first gun. He told Jem about his first gun when Walter Cunningham has lunch with them, and he says that his father told him that he could kill all the Blue Jays he wanted, but to never shoot a Mockingbird because they never did anything to anyone; just sang their song.
I guess it's just one of those "practice makes perfect" things, or in Atticus's case, practice makes a crackshot.
I guess it's just one of those "practice makes perfect" things, or in Atticus's case, practice makes a crackshot.
No Atticus never served in WWI but he was called ole one shot
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