How do the events of chapter 10 alter our (and the children's) Perceptions of Atticus

Many other characters react different to the children in this incident for example when Mr Tate says “you were a little to the right Mr Finch” or his nickname “one shot Finch” what everybody knew about this made their reaction very different because they were not surprised about how well Atticus could shoot or why Mr Tate (the sheriff) let Atticus take the shot rather than take it himself even though he hadn’t shot a gun in thirty years this just proves how much faith more the town has in Atticus’ shot than opposed to The Sheriff’s shot.

However Atticus is not proud of his skill of shooting and tries to hide the fact from his children. The quotation “Didn’t you know that your daddy’s” shows that the children know little about Atticus’ past and that Atticus does not like using his gift because he thinks god has given him an advantage over most living things. And he would not like telling his children about this because they would like him to carry on his talent and teach them to be able to shoot like him. The reasons implied about are; he doesn’t want to carry on killing innocent birds and other animals and he doesn’t want his children to be like him because he thinks that he has an unfair advantage against other living things he won’t want his children to be like it.

After the incident the children want to know everything about their fathers past when Miss Maudie says to scout “still think your father can’t do anything?” in return to when scout was saying that “Atticus was feeble” and Miss Maudie starts telling them all about the adventures that all the great things he can do like being a checkers champion and how he was really like years before Jem and Scout were around and this part of the book makes the children start to develop a different type of respect for their father rather than the respect a father would get of their time.

In conclusion the children have learnt a lot more about their Father and he hasn’t always worked in an office he was one exciting and this chapter is a crucial point of when the children start learning about their father. I think Harper lee wrote this chapter so the reader would learn about Atticus before we get too imbedded into the main story. Because the reader would not pay that much attention to this chapter if Harper lee placed it further on in the book.