"Ideals are like stars, we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our courses by them." This quote taken from Carl Schurz sums up a large portion of man's travel down life's path. Most of us spend the majority of our lives pursuing goals but few ever reach the climax of their planned accomplishment. A man's struggle to reach his person ideal is accounted in the novel To Kill a …showed first 75 words of 903 total…

…showed last 75 words of 903 total…is worthy of Abraham. Harper Lee's illustrious descriptions of Atticus's innate qualities elicit empathy and admiration from his reader. People like him are admired because they are "perfect" and always do what is "right." These kinds of people are known as "saintly" and "humanitarian". They are what the majority of the population sees as ideal. They are what the majority of the people strive for. They are what the majority of the people cannot reach.