To Kill A Mockingbird Moral Courage Research Paper

The Power of Moral Courage The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, a town very similar in ways to Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird. Like Scout’s father, Harper Lee’s father was also a lawyer of the town. Lee’s childhood friend novelist Truman Capote had given her the inspiration to create the character Dill. Harper Lee had mention that To Kill a Mockingbird was not just intended to portray her childhood home but rather a nonspecific town in the south. “People are people anywhere you put them,” she had declared in her interview. Courage is the ability to be able to do something that terrifies oneself, for a person to be courageous means that they are willing to put their life at risk
“Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world look on.” (La Rochefoucauld) In To Kill a Mockingbird, many citizens of Maycomb county had demonstrated moral courage. Atticus Finch had demonstrated moral courage as well as Ms. Maudie. To Kill a Mockingbird revolves around the life young Scout, her brother Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, a small town attorney respected for his honesty and intelligence. Part of the novel centers around Atticus as he is trying to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, accused of raping a white women. Along the way of the novel Atticus had manage to help many of his neighbor, stopping a Lynching mob, saving the day with his expert marksmanship, and still manage to deliver justices with a quiet and calm integrity. Atticus may be a fictional character in the novel but he is honored as a symbol, in 1977 the Alabama State Bar had created a monument for in his honors in