Examples Of Courage In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Courage Is Born In Difficult Moments

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is a novel written in 1960, that takes place in a small southern town called Maycomb, Alabama. Lee writes this novel based on her past and compares the characters to her life. Different types of courage are displayed throughout the novel. Courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. In the novel, courage is achieved by having faith, being brave, and the belief that everything will be okay. In the novel a number of characters display different types of courage, including, Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Mrs. Dubose.
First of all, Atticus Finch is a main character that displays courage in many ways. Atticus is a lawyer who puts all racism aside and …show more content…

Boo can be described as a neurotic man, who is Jem and Scouts next door neighbor, that stays inside all of the time and rarely speaks to anyone. The townspeople misunderstand his condition and it is said that he eats domestic animals, stabs his father with scissors, and is the town's “monster”. Throughout the whole novel Boo stays in his house but always is watching out for Jem and Scout. In the middle of the novel, Scout finds a piece of gum in a tree hole near the Radley property. She shows Jem and he says she better throw it away right at that instant, because who knows who put it there. They end up stopping at the tree everyday, seeing there were gifts left for them. One day the hole gets filled up and Jem and Scout finally figure out who was leaving them the gifts; it was Boo Radley. Boo leaves the gifts for the kids to try and extend his friendship with them. Furthermore, towards the end of the novel Jem and Scout are on their way home from a play Scout was in at the town’s pageant. They think they hear something but they are not sure of what it is so they keep walking. Out of the bushes Mr. Ewell starts to attack Jem. Scout is pushed away and Jem is knocked unconscious. Scout finds her way back home and Jem is brought back by Boo. Boo displayed physical courage by putting himself into the fight and saving the kids. As we can see, Boo is a very courageous person, even if the …show more content…

Dubose. Mrs. Dubose is an old woman who lives across the street from Jem and Scout. The main scene that deals with her is when Jem gets mad at her because she is calling him mean names. The town is calling his father mean names because he is defending a black man. Jems emotions gets ahold of him and he starts going crazy. Mrs. Dubose yells at Jem, saying his father was trash and he hits the top of Mrs. Dubose's bushes off. Jem's punishment consists of him having to go to Mrs. Dubose’s house every day and read for at least two hours. Every day an alarm goes off and Jem can leave. Later on, Jem learns that that alarm was a signal it was time for her to receive her medicine. She was addicted to morphine and her goal was to fight it off before she died. Courageous is a word that describes Mrs. Dubose. Scout’s description of Mrs. Dubose laying in her bed is “Cords of saliva would collect on her lips; she would draw them in, then open her mouth again. Her mouth seemed to have a private existence of its own. It worked separate and apart from the rest of her, out and in, like a clam at low tide”(106). Jem's description shows how miserable she was, yet she still kept fighting. She displayed mental courage, physical courage, and emotional courage. Even though she may have been mean, racist, and old, she was trying very hard to fight off her addiction to morphine before she died. With Jem’s help,

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