Killing Innocent with Fear “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” (Mark Twain) Humans live in fear every day, fear in the littlest things from spiders and ants, to big things like cliffs, but in the book To Kill a Mockingbird the people in Maycomb fear difference. They don’t want people to look different, sound different or even think different from them, because they are afraid of what will happen, if they accept it. Maycomb should not be afraid of anything but fear itself although Scout Finch and the other kids are afraid of the Radley house because they are ignorant of who Boo Radley really is. Boo Radley is not a bad man, he only seems weird and scary because the people of Maycomb want kids to have anxiety when passing his house. The adventurous Scout Finch, and her family have been known to not fear anything, but fear itself, they know people are afraid, and people being afraid, causes more harm than wellness. The main idea of the book is that the strongest characters of the book try to be afraid of nothing but fear itself. Being
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In To Kill a Mockingbird friends and family judge Atticus for taking a case that he had to take to keep his job. Out of fear that a black man might be innocent, they call Atticus an N word lover. People are so afraid of Tom Robinson being innocent they bring Atticus’s children in to this, “No sir, Mrs. Dubose calls you that. She warms up every afternoon calling you that. Francis called me that last Christmas, that's where I first heard it.” (Lee 144) Atticus’s job relies on if he defends Tom Robinson or not, but his family and friendship’s relies on if he claims Tom as guilty or innocent. Atticus’s family and the people of Maycomb turned their fear into hate for the innocent. Living in fear, is able to create problems, or turns into hatred and makes life harder, especially in To Kill a
In To Kill a Mockingbird friends and family judge Atticus for taking a case that he had to take to keep his job. Out of fear that a black man might be innocent, they call Atticus an N word lover. People are so afraid of Tom Robinson being innocent they bring Atticus’s children in to this, “No sir, Mrs. Dubose calls you that. She warms up every afternoon calling you that. Francis called me that last Christmas, that's where I first heard it.” (Lee 144) Atticus’s job relies on if he defends Tom Robinson or not, but his family and friendship’s relies on if he claims Tom as guilty or innocent. Atticus’s family and the people of Maycomb turned their fear into hate for the innocent. Living in fear, is able to create problems, or turns into hatred and makes life harder, especially in To Kill a