Courage In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird is a book about courage to what extent do you agree with this?

"I wanted to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun." What kinds of heroism and courage are shown in To Kill a Mockingbird? Discuss.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success. One will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble; courage is simply the foundation of integrity. What someone does in these moments of being very brave will reveal how strong someone really is, regardless of how much weight someone can deadlift. The courage of each character in "To Kill A Mockingbird" manifests itself in their battles against the corrupt forces of their world.

In the short story To Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee suggests that in certain situations people have the potential to show acts of courage In our society it is generally believed that in order for someone to show courage, they must show it through physical acts of peril. The only type of courage that is ever heard of or praised is when someone nearly puts their life at risk to show their bravery. In the short story To Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee suggests that in certain situations people have the potential to show acts of courage, great or small. Lee proposes this through characterization, plot and outcome.

The definition of courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. To Kill A Mockingbird is set in Macomb County is the 1930´s. The book in narrated by scout, but some other major characters include Atticus and ¨boo¨. Across this book, these three characters find their own meaning of courage. As a reader, we get to see what they do to show courage, and the sacrifices they make to get there. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird courage is shown as doing something even when consequences await. In To Kill A Mockingbird Scout, Atticus, and ¨Boo¨ Radley display courage.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a timeless novel that has been both accepted and refused by many readers. To Kill a Mockingbird took place is a town called Maycomb. It is narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, otherwise known as Scout, who learns how to deal with many things in her life. While learning to deal with racism, injustice, and criticism, she also finds courage being showed by many of her role models. The theme courage is best depicted through Boo Radley, Scout and Atticus.

"Courage isn't an absence of fear. It's doing what you are afraid to do. It's having the power to let go of the familiar and forge ahead into new territory." ~John Maxwell. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout (Jean Louise Finch), Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch), and Atticus Finch display acts of valor that contribute, and in some cases encourage their rectitude. Harper Lee demonstrates that acting courageously can lead to an improved, sustained, or newly developed personal integrity.

In the 1980s, the majority of the people living in the South had very conservative and prejudiced views. During this period, Jim Crow Laws made society very segregated. Public facilities were usually divided by “Whites Only” and “Colored” signs that were designed to make African Americans feel sub-human. African Americans had to live in poorer areas of a town and most could not go to school. Few Caucasians were openly sympathetic towards them out of the fear of getting rejected by society. Supporters of equality risked their reputation and sometimes their lives. Therefore, people who challenged segregation had to be extremely courageous. In To Kill a Mockingbird, which character displayed the most courage? The evidence gathered from the story indicates that Atticus Finch was the most courageous character.

Courage manifests itself into certain characters of To Kill a Mockingbird once the story begins to escalate. These characters, or certain individuals, go through different situations and assimilate the conditions they were put in. Maycomb, their small little town, is where everything takes place. As the characters evolve in the town, due to their surroundings and events that take place, they all begin to find moral strengths to venture, persevere, endure dangers, fears, and difficulties.

Once Scout begins to see situations through others’ perspectives, she starts to, as Atticus says, “get along a lot better with all kinds of folks” (Lee 39).

“What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so, irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.” This is a quote by Sam Manekshaw, the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal, and it perfectly sums up what moral courage is. Moral Courage is to know when something isn’t right, and say something about it whether or not your peers approve. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there was a black man named Tom Robinson who was accused of raping a woman named Mayella and was found guilty even though the evidence says otherwise. Also during 1931, a trial that prosecuted 9 boys for raping two women was an extremely prejustice case. In both cases, the innocent were found guilty and wrongs were not righted due to the civil injustices at that time, and moral courage was not shown in either of these cases except for the few to speak out.

Courage is strength. Courage is honesty. Courage is standing one’s ground no matter what. Courage is standing up for others. In Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem Finch, along with their father Atticus, live in Maycomb County, a small, mainly racist town in Alabama during the Great Depression. The Finch family’s neighbor, Mrs. Dubose, and Atticus display acts of personal courage in the story. Specifically, Mrs. Dubose displays courage in her honesty and strength, and Atticus displays courage in his responses to racism based threats and keeping others safe.

Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what" (149). According to Atticus Finch, a character in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, true courage does not mean the ability to overcome fear, but to fight for what is right regardless of the result. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the author tells a story of a woman fighting against her addiction. In another, the War of the Wall by Toni Cade Bambara, is also about a woman, except she is mourning for her cousin, and the poem, Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, is about one who feels caged by society’s standards. In these stories, the authors uses symbolism and characterization to express the theme that true courage is standing up for

“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what”- Lee). Some 65 years after the abolishment of slavery there was considerable resentment by southern whites about the loss of one of their main sources of livelihood. Fictional novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee takes place in the 1930s in Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a small southern town with all the traditional prejudices of that time towards colored people. It is narrated by Scout Finch a young girl who lives with her brother Jem and her father Atticus, a lawyer. Atticus is widely respected in the community and well-liked. However, after taking the case of a Black man

“... I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see through it not matter what” (Lee, 11). This book is a story about two siblings that experienced many things throughout the whole book, most of them hard and new to them, but at the end, they assimilated to face these things. Their father, Atticus, was a lawyer who did everything at his hands to always do the right thing, and as a result of that, Jem and Scout met several circumstances that other kids weren’t exposed to and they learned to forgive and and appreciate others the way they are. Compassion and forgiveness are perceptible in this book and appreciable things like Camellias, and Red Geraniums can represent such strong emotions.