Theme Of Moral Courage In To Kill A Mockingbird

Most people may not know this book was based off some of Harper Lee's childhood experiences. The theme is based off many things but main thing is moral courage and how it is used in conflict and characterization. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how conflict and characterization reflected this theme of moral courage through many problems that happened and through many of the characters actions in this novel.
To begin with the first literary element is conflict because it shows how it reflects moral courage. Atticus takes the case of Tom Robinson raping Mayella Ewell. The town of Maycomb is disappointed in Atticus for defending an african american. Atticus knows he is doing the right thing and he has the ability to continue defending Tom in this trial. Atticus states “[...] every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally” (Harper 76). The quote supports how moral courage had an effect on Atticus by him trying to help Tom while everyone in Maycomb is down his back about what he is doing and how he is wrong for betraying the people of his town for a african american. Meanwhile,Scout, Jem and Dill harasses Boo Radley because they want to see what he looks like but in the end they realize they are wrong. The children sneak into his backyard and try to look at him through the window but they failed
He still claims that Boo didn't commit the crime meanwhile, Atticus thinks Jem killed Bob. Sheriff Tate explains that "He held the knife and pretended to stumble, as he leaned forward his left arm went down in front of him. See there? Stabbed himself through that soft stuff between his ribs. His whole weight drove it in" (Harper 274). This quote support moral courage because Sheriff Tate knows he is doing the right thing by lying to save Boo from being arrested. He knows Boo was only trying to save Atticus's children from being hurt or maybe even