Theme Of Courage In To Kill A Mockingbird

“Courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”(149) In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird Jem and Scout learn what it truly means to be courageous. They put up with the racism and the hate they get throughout the story. Atticus teaches them throughout the novel to be empathetic of people. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird uses characters and conflict to display the theme that racism needs to be overcome to create a fair society. When the trial is starting out Jem and Scout realizes the racism in the world and how people act. “ You ain't got no business bringin’ white chillun here - they got their own church we got our’n. Calpurnia said, “It's the same God, ain't it?”’ Calpurnia defends herself by saying that we are all equal. She shows that through all the segregation we are all the same people who worship the same god. “You know what we want,” another man said. “Get aside from the door Mr. Finch.”’ Some of the men will not even wait for the trial to start to see if he is guilty. They don't see him as a person only a slave that breaks the law. Tensions already rise with black people but when he does something wrong it gets even higher. …show more content…
“Cry about the hell white people give coloured folks without even stopping to think that they're people too.” Mr Raymond shows that it is sickening what is happening to black people. He explains that children get how sickening it is because they haven't been exposed to the racism in the world. “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.(323) Because Tom Robinson was a black man people were quick to judge him. All the evidence there were in the case all pointed in his favor except for one important thing, he was black. All of the world is against black men even when then do nothing