A Time Of Prejudice In a very sheltered, old-fashioned town by the name of Maycomb was a family called the Finches. Scout and Jem were the children of Atticus Finch. Before Atticus’ youngest daughter Scout could ever really know her, Atticus’ wife died. Jem, Scout’s older brother, was old enough so he could truly miss his mother. Often times Scout would ask Jem about her. Though Atticus never really shows the pain of missing his wife, I believe he does have pain but cannot show it because that would weaken his family. Atticus was a very strong man and stood up for what was right and in the town of Maycomb there were many things to stand up for. In a society and time full