Don Brown writes about "To Kill a Mockingbird" and calls it “a sermon on courage as much as anything else”. A passage that shows that Brown’s idea is true is when Atticus is talking to Scout after Jem leaves to apologize to Mrs.Dubose for killing her camellia flowers. Scout doesn't understand why Atticus continues the case when the rest of the residents in Maycomb county insult him for it. Atticus tells her "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"(Lee 87). What Atticus tells Scout is a perfect example of courage in "To Kill a Mockingbird", a theme that is carried throughout the novel. A few times in the book Atticus mentions that he wouldn’t
