Into To Kill a MockingBird Atticus Finch defines courage as. “It's when [people] know [they are] licked before [they] begin, but [they] begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” (Lee 149). This shows that courage is doing what is right even though you are going against everyone else, and is shown happening throughout real life in The Untold Story of Emmett Till, and Montgomery Boycott‘’. Courage intertwine through To Kill a MockingBird by Harper Lee, The Untold Story of Emmett Till filmed by Keith Beauchamp, and Montgomery Boycott by Coretta Scott King by doing the right thing even though you are going against everyone else. This is due to how they all try to get their point across and how says it.
Harper Lee’s To Kill a MockingBird gave us a definition of courage which …show more content…
Emmett's mother was an example of that courage. For example when she came to Mississippi she showed the world the injustice done to her innocent boy by having an open casket and going to court under a broken system. In the documentary it showed the struggle she had going to court in Mississippi and the people yelling and screaming rude racist and profanic words at her. Her doing this sparked fight within the African americans and eventually gave way to the civil rights movement.Emmett’s uncle Moses displayed an act of courage in the courtroom as well. He did it when he got up and pointed at the two men who killed Emmett and accused them for it right in front of the court. Him doing this almost got him killed because they came to his house at the end af court and tried to kill him. The scene in the film shows Moses standing and leaning over the stand pointing at Mr Bryant and his acompless. In all him pointing was extremely rare because doing it could result in white men killing him for him being
Harper Lee’s To Kill a MockingBird gave us a definition of courage which …show more content…
Emmett's mother was an example of that courage. For example when she came to Mississippi she showed the world the injustice done to her innocent boy by having an open casket and going to court under a broken system. In the documentary it showed the struggle she had going to court in Mississippi and the people yelling and screaming rude racist and profanic words at her. Her doing this sparked fight within the African americans and eventually gave way to the civil rights movement.Emmett’s uncle Moses displayed an act of courage in the courtroom as well. He did it when he got up and pointed at the two men who killed Emmett and accused them for it right in front of the court. Him doing this almost got him killed because they came to his house at the end af court and tried to kill him. The scene in the film shows Moses standing and leaning over the stand pointing at Mr Bryant and his acompless. In all him pointing was extremely rare because doing it could result in white men killing him for him being