Atticus Courageous Analysis

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Atticus is Courageous

Atticus demonstrated courage because he is protecting a black man and the people of Maycomb do not want that. “In ones and twos men got out of the cars. Shadows became substance as lights revealed solid shapes moving toward the jail. Atticus remained where he was.” (Lee 202). It is shown that Atticus is being courageous because when the men got out of the car he just sat there and was being courageous and brave; he is talking to the people in the courthouse. Fortunately, Atticus speaking of protecting Tom. “The witness for the state, with the expectation for the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident

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