Courage, the ability to do something that frightens you. The strength to ignore your fear and move on. The power to ignore what others say and to ignore common sense just to hurl yourself into the unknown and smile as you fall. Courage is the force that lets empires rise and allows axes to fall. The force that lets the hero save the world, or lets the villain watch it burn and breath in it’s ashes. Courage is a beautiful tool that can change everything in a split second. It is also an incredibly important factor in the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. One that shines through a man who refuses to stand down in the face of society so he can do what he knows is right. Two children’s ability to face a world of hate they didn’t know prior, and still move along. The single motion made by a single outcast that halted a monster’s evil. Atticus Finch, the father of the protagonist Scout, defends the character Tom Robinson in court. Almost every resident in the little town of Maycomb believes that Tom is guilty of the crime he’s been accused of and they come quite close to despising the lawyer for defending him. But he never lets this bother him, he never lets the words, the thoughts, the actions of other men hurt him. Because he knows it’s the right thing to do. Despite what others say what others think he still walks the path he deems right. He walks his road and lets them watch with hate filled eyes, ignoring the venom that they spit. “...If I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn 't even tell you or Jem not to do something again.” (Lee .100) Atticus states that if he didn’t defend Tom, if he turned down the case that he’d lose the right to be proud, to represent his home, to even try and teach his children the difference between right and wrong. So he had to have the courage to ignore the words of those full of spite. He’d have to have the courage to stand in front of the world and say that he disagrees. He’d need to have the courage to do what he thought was right despite that he knew he was already on the losing team. If he hadn’t had the courage to defend Tom then he didn’t deserve to call himself the man he was. But despite the courage Atticus held, his strength wouldn’t keep his children away from the darkness that befell him.. They’d have to walk through it on their own, with their own bravery acting as a golden flame to guide them through the shadow. Scout and Jem Finch begin this journey innocent and ignorant of the hatred, the racism, and the wrongdoings of the people around them, of the town they’ve spent their lives in. But as they walk their roads they come
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Sometimes it’s less of a shield and more of a sword, that a man must raise to defeat what scares him instead of simply letting it strike out and pass by.
“...Two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.” (Lee .373). Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley was an outcast, a phantom that waved and flicked like a faint candle light always threatening fade and raise the question if it had ever actually existed in the worst place. A man the world feared, but two children needed more than they had realized for quite some time.
Boo had spent a majority of his years locked away in his home, living happily in the warm embrace of the dark, of the silence, of the calm and safety. He had shoved the world away and locked himself up to keep away the evils of the world, so he may only be surrounded by whatever it was that brought him joy. He was a man scared of a town that was scared of him, an innocent soul who never dared step outside at risk of being taken siege by the darkness the world held. Not the kind he loved, not that which acted as shelter from evil but was flooded by it, a festering pool of disgusting vile rage and pain that he had no interest in being part
Sometimes it’s less of a shield and more of a sword, that a man must raise to defeat what scares him instead of simply letting it strike out and pass by.
“...Two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.” (Lee .373). Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley was an outcast, a phantom that waved and flicked like a faint candle light always threatening fade and raise the question if it had ever actually existed in the worst place. A man the world feared, but two children needed more than they had realized for quite some time.
Boo had spent a majority of his years locked away in his home, living happily in the warm embrace of the dark, of the silence, of the calm and safety. He had shoved the world away and locked himself up to keep away the evils of the world, so he may only be surrounded by whatever it was that brought him joy. He was a man scared of a town that was scared of him, an innocent soul who never dared step outside at risk of being taken siege by the darkness the world held. Not the kind he loved, not that which acted as shelter from evil but was flooded by it, a festering pool of disgusting vile rage and pain that he had no interest in being part