Mrs Maudie Quotes

One theme in To KIll a Mockingbird is people are not what they seem. Mrs. Dubose seems like a mean person. She picks on kids like Jem and Scout. She is racist. She is nosey and sticks her nose in other peoples’ business. Under all of that, she is actually struggling. She is addicted to morphine. She resists her addiction in a stubborn, courageous way. Before she dies, she gives Jem a flower as a thank you. To the children, Atticus is quiet and peaceful. He is scholarly and dislikes confrontation. They later found out he is known as the town’s best shot. He also took the Robinson case against the town’s wishes. Later, Atticus delt with the mob calmly to save the man he was defending. This shows that people are not always what they seem.

Epitomizing Lee’s beliefs is Atticus, whose courage is active and bound by his conscience, yet adheres to Lee’s basic principle of acting against

I agree that Miss Maudie is a good role model for Jem and Scout,to begin with, Miss Maudie helps the children get a better perspective of their father Atticus. In the beginning of the story we learn that Jem and Scout don’t quite know everything about Atticus and who he truly is. In chapter 5 while discussing the Radley’s and integrity Miss Maudie says to Scout;“Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the streets”(46) Miss Maudie in the quote is explaining to Scout that Atticus is honest and not misleading, he treats people the same way he does at home to his family, neighbors and maycomb towns people.

Today in society people do things that are the right and the wrong. Some go out of their way to help and even save others. This is represented throughout the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. In the tough times of life, the good in people emerge from deep inside them.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Mrs. Dubose was very mean and said very bad things about Atticus Finch. When Atticus talks about Mrs. Dubose to his children, he says, “I wanted you to see what real courage is… She was the bravest person I ever knew.”(149). Now was Mrs. Dubose really a brave person. While some people might argue that she is because she wasn’t scared to talk about Atticus the way she did, others will argue that Mrs. Dubose is not a very courageous person. First, Mrs. Dubose does talk about Atticus in a very bad way. She even said “Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!”(135). That could show some courage, but if people were true to themselves, they would realize that anyone can have the courage to say something

When Atticus first brings up the subject of Mrs. Dubose, and describes her as a lady, Jem turns scarlet. He is frustrated because he believes that she is not considered a lady for all of the things she has said about Atticus and the person he is defending in court. Atticus then begins to teach Jem that other people have different opinions than what Jem’s opinions are. When Atticus begins to describe the good qualities that Mrs. Dubose had he says, “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” (Lee 122). Atticus is explaining how Mrs. Dubose was struggling with a sickness, but she never gave up. She continued to fight for herself. Atticus is saying that courage does not always come from someone who is fighting for

According to her, she died beholden to nothing or nobody. She was the bravest person I knew.” (p.149) Jem and Scout don't realize the hardships and struggle Mrs. Dubose is facing by simply choosing to overcome her addiction. Atticus admires and respects Mrs. Dubose for facing her addiction so he uses the example of Mrs.Dubose’s courage to Jem and Scout to show them what real courage is. By reason of her courage Mrs. Dubose died free of her morphine addiction, because she knew it was the right thing to

Mrs Dubose did not want to die while addicted to medication so she showed courage while going longer every day; “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 see it through to the end. You rarely win but sometimes you do.” Atticus describes courage as something that you have to

Through Mrs.Dubose, Atticus was able to convey his message to Jem and even says that she is the "bravest person" he has ever meet (Lee 149). Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict but was able to break her addiction. Drug addicts struggle when they break their addiction and sometimes a relapse can happen. Mrs. Dubose was suffering internally but thanks to Jem she was able to overcome. She knew that her addition was painful but she stuck with it.

One character who showed a lot of courage in the story is Mrs. Dubose, who had the courage to face her pain and win against her addiction before she died. According to Atticus, she had been sick for a long time and had to use morphine to stifle the intense pain she felt. This caused

c. Mrs. Dubose was such a brave person in Atticus's eyes because of her determination

While Mrs. Dubose is only present for a small period of time within the book, she embodies moral courage so much that she is idolized by Atticus. Despite being in her last years of life, Mrs. Dubose was determined to quit her morphine addiction before death, a daunting task that she accomplished. Using Mrs. Dubose as an example, Atticus teaches Jem and Scout that she is “what real courage is” not “a man with a gun in his hand”(pg.112). In addition, Atticus further explains that “beginning when you’re liched anyways” is what makes an action, like Mrs. Dubose’s, courageous (Lee pg.112). Considering that Mrs. Dubose began and accomplished a goal in her dying years purely out of self-respect and her own moral standards, she is easily a prime example of moral

Dubose was a morphine addict who lived across the street from the Finch’s house. Jem does not like her because she always yells rude insults to Jem and Scout. Jem cut up the flowers in her front yard, and as a result, he had to read to Mrs. Dubose every day. “She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe…I wanted you to see something about her. 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” (112).

Dubose demonstrates everything wrong in Maycomb. Mrs. Dubose is disgracefully bigoted and she is an outcast in the town of Maycomb because of it. Since Mrs. Dubose was "very old" (Scout,132) and born in the time of the Confederacy, her views are extremely narrow-minded and she's not afraid to share them publicly. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and a very critical part if the story, since he is defending Tom Robinson, a black man, on the charge of rape. Mrs. Dubose belittles Atticus and treats him like he is worthless. Several times in the story, Mrs. Dubose confronts Atticus's children and says, "[Their] father is no better than the trash he works for."(135) For Mrs. Dubose, an adult woman, to mistreat Atticus is one thing, but for her to harass two children, is another and it says a lot about her

The audacious actions executed by Mrs. Dubose are used to illustrate how she is a fundamental character when it comes to demonstrating true courage. Throughout the years Mrs. Dubose was alive she was unafraid to speak her mind knowing that others had their own views and opinions they would later express. The readers are made aware of this during the time when Mrs. Dubose was speaking to Scout and Jem saying,