Examples Of Irony In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, there was much of moral courage shown that occurred among the people in Maycomb County. Everyone knew one another, however, they left other’s personal life alone. It was a small town but if anything happened, people would know once it had happened. But there are two things that I thought was out of moral courage. It started with the children talking about rumors on the Radley’s place. Thereafter, Scout and Jem with a beloved friend named Dill had went to court and watched Scout’s dad, Atticus, take a case for an African American man. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the two kinds of moral courage that was presented in the novel were irony and plot. As irony is expecting what is about to happen but then turns around

and becomes something else. But plot is the bigger part of a situation. This was an extreme and great way to put a story in suspense and grab the audience’s attention.

Scout and Jem spent one of their summers wondering if Boo Radley was alive or dead.

So, one day the children took the time with Dill to search on his property to see if he can come out of his house. However, Scout was nervous and asked Jem to not go along with it. In addition, they all went on the Radley’s place and got a rude awakening. They got shot at by Nathan Radley. With that, irony was being presented. The children thought they would not be able to escape. However, a shotgun was not a joke in the matter and they barely made it out alive. With their rare escape of going under the gate and running back home, Jem had to go back to fetch his pants. Thinking from Scout’s point of view that Jem will be harmed in this action, Jem came back fully alive and with his pants. All of a sudden, Jem realizes that his pants were waiting for him, folded and ready for him to take it back then it being back on the gate stuck when he tried to escape for his life. “He came up the back steps, latched the door behind him, and sat on his cot. Wordlessly, he held up his pants. He lay down, and for a while I heard his cot trembling.” (Harper Lee 76) With what had just happened with these children, that was one the scariest moments to have happened. How ironic that they all survived when they could have been dead on the property of the Radley’s

place.

As for the plot, there was a court case in Maycomb County. Atticus, the children’s’ father, had to take a case for a black man. He was not thrilled about it but it was his job. Even though no one wanted to take his case since people were races and were segregated. It was a big situation among the whole town with a black man raping a white female. That was bad to hear in that town and to know how society would interpret that in any way possible to make an African American male look bad on his character. As Atticus took the time for his personal matters and for his job on Tom Robinson, the black man on trial, it was a very difficult case to juggle with among a majority of whites in the town. During the long and tiresome trial, Atticus narrows down the evidence and states something to the jury about making a good decision on this extreme conviction. “A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty.” (Harper Lee 274-275) As a result, this African American man was guilty of raping a white woman and eventually murdered from escaping from the officials. As of the moral courage for Tom Robinson to be persuaded to be a free and innocent man, Atticus tries with all of his might to be the hero for an African American male and help him get back home. There’s only a few things that you can do to go the extra mile for something that is right. Even though, morally things are supposed to go the other way and it may not be a good thing at all.

In conclusion, using irony and plot are very strong to support evidence to claim your thesis in showing moral courage. To Kill a Mockingbird is a very great and depressing novel to tell people about the past with whites and blacks. There was always racism and segregation. It's persuading people to know the history about the separation and how society set up the livings among the people not only in Maycomb County but how the world was back in time going with and through the same issues about racism and not being integrated. These reasons and examples tell you about moral courage. Letting you know how they connect in some way and how moral courage can happen anywhere at anytime.