Essay on Heroism in Lord Jim

In summary, Matthew Harrison Brady had many traits that affected the outcome of the trial. He used words to change the opinions of others, his overconfidence changed his perspective on decision making, and his ignorant behavior gave him a weaker argument in the case. These following characteristics had a large influence on the Judge, the Jury and

Despite the risks that one might have associated with his defense of a slave that had killed her master, regardless of the motives, Jameson appears to have made every effort to defend her to the best of his abilities. Even though Jameson appeared to be a good lawyer “according to those who knew him: as a lawyer [Jameson] was not profound” (McLaurin 85), so to aid Jameson in “labor and research” (McLaurin 85) Hall appointed two lawyers that were subordinate to Jameson. Now Jameson may not have been the best at trial research,but when it came to his courtroom skills “his contemporaries nevertheless admired him…” (McLaurin 85). Though not for his presentation, or his cross-examination skills, but for his “almost uncanny ability to read a jury” (McLaurin 85). Due to this skill of reading a jury many who knew him said he was “an excellent judge of men…” (McLaurin 85) which would have given him and advantage during Celia’s trial, unfortunately the prosecution in this case was (also/to) strong, led by Robert Prewitt, they virtually prevented Jameson from making any sort of case for the defense of Celia. Despite the fact that Jameson encountered some resistance from the “presiding judge whose consistent rulings to sustain the state’s objections revealed, if not his hostility toward the defendant, at least a desire for a perfunctory defense

[he] could a paddled ashore and told somebody" (151). He believed that this was as bad as stealing. He decided he would go in town and give Jim up, but when it came time to do it, he could not bring himself to give Jim up. Jim had become too important to him. Later in the novel, Huck again faced this dilemma about whether or not to give Jim up. This occurred after the king and duke had sold Jim to Mr. Phelps. Huck decided to write a letter to Miss Watson, Jim's owner before he escaped, telling her where her runaway slave was. He again felt awful about allowing and even helping Jim to escape from her, and he believed that "people that acts as [he'd] been acting about that n***** goes to everlasting fire" (365). However, then he started thinking about his friendship with Jim and how good Jim had been to him through the whole voyage. He realized how much Jim actually meant to him . He then decided, once and for all, that he would not give Jim up, "and never thought no more about reforming" (368).

Courage is defined as "the quality of mind or spirit enabling one to meet danger or opposition with fearlessness." According to Atticus Finch, one of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird, "Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." (pg.121). Harper Lee clearly portrays the theme of courage in her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. One likes to think of a hero, as strong, brave, and meeting all challenges head on. All the characters in this book have a different view as to what courage

Courage is as stated in The New International Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language to be “the capacity to meet danger or difficulty with firmness.” In my mind courage has always meant doing what you had to do, and dealing with it because you had to. I never had a choice in my life whether I wanted to move to a different city

Courage is the ability to do something in the face of pain, grief or fear. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus serves as an example of true courage to the town when he shoots the sick dog Tim Johnson, defends Tom Robinson in his legal troubles and allows Mr. Ewell spit in his face.

Jim also struggles with the nature of truth and feels that events can become more real in a story than in reality, as if by turning the memory into a story makes it more concrete and committed to one version. And in the process of telling the story all the men can come to an agreement of what happened and add to it. Sometimes things happen so fast in life that they don't really happen until you go over them in your mind and set down the facts and details, finalizing the version in your mind of what happened. And

Normally, if a defendant is arrested and brought to court, the prosecutor must present enough evidence to make the judge or grand jury believe that the defendant had committed the crime. In the memoir, “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson, cases regarding corruption and quick trials are presented to the reader from Stevenson’s point of view. Many times Stevenson implied that characters such as Sheriff Tate and other officers abused their power to cause hasty trials and take cases that did not have enough evidence to convict and create false witness testimonies. Testimonies were manipulated to give the advantage to the prosecutors and when other people spoke up for the defendant they were either bribed or silenced. For example, in the Walter McMillian case, the testimonies of his family and neighbors saying he was at his house was dismissed while Ralph Myers testimony was the key factor for the case. When Myers had admitted that he had lied in his testimony, he was “threatened and harassed by the local authorities”(Stevenson

Innocent until proven guilty is a phrase that applies to our judicial system in modern times; however, when the play Doubt by John Patrick Stanley was written this phrase did not always apply. The play is a parable that makes you think about how gossip and rumors can cause havoc and potentially ruin someone’s career. In the play the rumors that are flying are rumors about whether or not Father Flynn is innocent or guilty to the crime of molesting a young boy named Donald Muller. Critics still argue whether he was innocent or guilty to the crime today, and no answer is known. However, based on the evidence in Patrick Shanley’s play Doubt: A Parable, one could conclude that Father Flynn is innocent due to the fact that he had reasonable evidence

Passage: “Miss Watson’s big n*****, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him” (Twain 4). Chapter 2

While traveling on the raft, he explains how his daughter, in her youth, behaved in a manner that caused his conscience to overthrow itself with anger. Jim explains, “I [fetched] her a slap side [the] head” (Twain 118). While the trait of abuse does not commonly excite attention to thoughts of Christ, his behavior becomes less relevant due to his emotional response. Jim pleads “Lord God Almighty forgive [poor] [old] Jim” (Twain 118). The immensity of the internal pang causes Jim’s confession of sin and request for God’s redemption. In doing so, he shows honesty as well as honorability, like Jesus,

Courage is when you believe in yourself that you can do anything. Well, In line 270, The Odyssey stated, ‘‘Odysseus was afraid of the cyclops but had the courage to keep moving and he escaped the cyclops cave (379).

     From the start of the novel to the very end, descriptions of the Jim’s environment

Courage is the ability to do something that frightens you. The main character Atticus has a huge amount of

He thought it was in his best interest to see what Dr. Livesey thought of this matter. After Jim comes back to Admiral Benbow from staying with Dr. Livesey, he finds that Jim’s mother has hired a young boy to be an apprentice in replace of Jim. Jim finally begins to see that his adventure has forced him to forget about his previous life at the Inn. He realizes he is leaving his normal life, the Inn, and his mother (Stevenson 59-60). Jim may have got the feeling he was being replaced, but he knew that day would come soon enough. “In many respects a typical British boy of his age, Jim has lead a sheltered life at the Admiral Benbow Inn. The arrival of Billy Bones triggers his desire to explore the larger world beyond his home. Although he has grown up on the sea coast, Jim knows little of the seafaring life. His adventures constitute on initiation into adulthood, by means of which he learns survival skills and moral lessons that far eclipse the typical education of a British gentleman” (Beetz, Niemeyer 2007). Although only the age of thirteen, Jim was determined to set sail and wasn’t going to let his age define who he was, until tragedy struck.