To Kill A Mockingbird Courage
The act of courage has been used for millions of years, from David fighting the giant Goliath to characters in To Kill A Mockingbird showing acts of courage. The text took place in the 1930s, during a time when whites and blacks were divided and the years of the great depression. Maycomb county was the small town where everyone knows everyone else’s business. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows that standing for what’s right leads to the act of courage and how it can influence to change a small town like Maycomb.
To begin, Miss Dubose showed she had a courage because she decided to stop her morphine addiction right before she died. “‘Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict’, said Atticus. ‘She took it as a pain killer for a long time because …show more content…
First of all, he has volunteered to protect the town when there was a mad dog. Scout narrated “The rifle cracked. Tim Johnson leaped, flopped over and crumpled on the sidewalk in a brown-and-white heap” (Lee 80). He protects his town and all of its people from the extreme Tim Johnson. In the passage, Atticus shows his commitment to defend Maycomb and get rid of the prejudice that most of the people in the town have. Besides the other members of Maycomb, Atticus treats the Blacks as equals. For example, he takes position with Calpurnia, who helps around in the house, and even gives her a nickname calling her “Cal” and motivates his children to do the same. He even states, after Scout asks him if he is a “nigger-lover”, “I do my best to love everybody” (90). Fighting for your morals against a town that has Whites being the superior race is very brave and a noble act. Finally, Atticus believes in justice for all. “There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance” (188). He knows Tom Robinson’s case will not favor him, but he goes in and tries anyway to keep his morals and integrity. The bravery in this comes again from the idea of defiance, but also from the idea of equality between the
To begin, Miss Dubose showed she had a courage because she decided to stop her morphine addiction right before she died. “‘Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict’, said Atticus. ‘She took it as a pain killer for a long time because …show more content…
First of all, he has volunteered to protect the town when there was a mad dog. Scout narrated “The rifle cracked. Tim Johnson leaped, flopped over and crumpled on the sidewalk in a brown-and-white heap” (Lee 80). He protects his town and all of its people from the extreme Tim Johnson. In the passage, Atticus shows his commitment to defend Maycomb and get rid of the prejudice that most of the people in the town have. Besides the other members of Maycomb, Atticus treats the Blacks as equals. For example, he takes position with Calpurnia, who helps around in the house, and even gives her a nickname calling her “Cal” and motivates his children to do the same. He even states, after Scout asks him if he is a “nigger-lover”, “I do my best to love everybody” (90). Fighting for your morals against a town that has Whites being the superior race is very brave and a noble act. Finally, Atticus believes in justice for all. “There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance” (188). He knows Tom Robinson’s case will not favor him, but he goes in and tries anyway to keep his morals and integrity. The bravery in this comes again from the idea of defiance, but also from the idea of equality between the