All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. - Helen Keller
In the book to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee there were many examples of courage. The main person who displayed this was Atticus Finch. But a character that I think doesn't get enough credit for having courage is Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose. Mrs.Dubose was a woman who knew she was going to die. She had a terminal disease, probably cancer, but wanted to die drug free. I think Mrs.Dubose shows a tremendous amount of courage, trying to break a drug addiction, knowing that it will cause her pain and won't change anything.
Mrs.Dubose was a lot of things, she certainly wasn't the Finches’ favorite neighbor, that was obvious when Jem took a baton to her camellias. She was also heartless, she would tell Scout and Jem that they would grow up to be nothing as she shouted other hurtful things as they walked by her house. She was repulsive, ”Cords of saliva would collect on her lips; she would draw them in, then open her mouth again. Her mouth seemed to have a private existence of its own. It worked separate and apart from the rest of her, out and in, like a clam hole at low tide. Occasionally it would say, Pt," like some viscous substance coming to a boil.” She was also a traditionalist, she noticed Scout’s overalls and tells her if she doesn't …show more content…
But she did what very few people would choose to do, break her addiction and suffer in pain rather than die in a bliss. She as Atticus had said won. She should that courage doesn't always come in forms like Atticus, the lawyer defending the black man. But instead she showed a tremendous amount of courage by choosing the hard life. In the end Jem’s punishment is over and he stops reading to her, she dies shortly after. Mrs.Dubose leaves Jem a camellia in a candy box. Angrily he discards the box, but see’s Scout admiring the flower. There Atticus tells them how brave Mrs. Dubose really
In the book to kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee there were many examples of courage. The main person who displayed this was Atticus Finch. But a character that I think doesn't get enough credit for having courage is Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose. Mrs.Dubose was a woman who knew she was going to die. She had a terminal disease, probably cancer, but wanted to die drug free. I think Mrs.Dubose shows a tremendous amount of courage, trying to break a drug addiction, knowing that it will cause her pain and won't change anything.
Mrs.Dubose was a lot of things, she certainly wasn't the Finches’ favorite neighbor, that was obvious when Jem took a baton to her camellias. She was also heartless, she would tell Scout and Jem that they would grow up to be nothing as she shouted other hurtful things as they walked by her house. She was repulsive, ”Cords of saliva would collect on her lips; she would draw them in, then open her mouth again. Her mouth seemed to have a private existence of its own. It worked separate and apart from the rest of her, out and in, like a clam hole at low tide. Occasionally it would say, Pt," like some viscous substance coming to a boil.” She was also a traditionalist, she noticed Scout’s overalls and tells her if she doesn't …show more content…
But she did what very few people would choose to do, break her addiction and suffer in pain rather than die in a bliss. She as Atticus had said won. She should that courage doesn't always come in forms like Atticus, the lawyer defending the black man. But instead she showed a tremendous amount of courage by choosing the hard life. In the end Jem’s punishment is over and he stops reading to her, she dies shortly after. Mrs.Dubose leaves Jem a camellia in a candy box. Angrily he discards the box, but see’s Scout admiring the flower. There Atticus tells them how brave Mrs. Dubose really