What is courage? Courage is when someone has the ability to face their fears. Atticus is a courageous character. He has a good personality and heart. Atticus puts himself in other people's shoes. He is a very respectful person. Atticus is courageous because he always does the right thing, thinks about others feelings, and has moral values. Atticus has good morals and always looks for the good in people. " ' You know she was a great lady. She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe... I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what... She
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" ' if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view -until you climb into his skin and walk around in it' " (Lee, 39) Atticus is very understanding. He never judges a person by how they look or how they act. When Atticus took the case for Tom Robinson, he knew what he was getting himself into. He knew it was not going to give him a good impact, but he took it anyways. He thinks that all men should be created equal, but colored people do not have the rights white people do. Atticus has the courage to believe what is unbelievable. He knows somethings are never going to be the way they are, but that doesn't stop him from believing. Atticus treats all men equally and when he took the Tom Robinson case he knew that since he was colored something would go wrong. Atticus imagines himself to be the person before saying or doing anything mean. He put himself inside Tom Robinson and thinks about how he feels. How colored people feel being treated unfairly. He has the patience to wait and find out the results for himself. He knows that Tom Robinson did not rape Mayella Ewell. He fears for Tom Robinson's life because he will not be able to return back to his family or his loved ones due to
" ' if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view -until you climb into his skin and walk around in it' " (Lee, 39) Atticus is very understanding. He never judges a person by how they look or how they act. When Atticus took the case for Tom Robinson, he knew what he was getting himself into. He knew it was not going to give him a good impact, but he took it anyways. He thinks that all men should be created equal, but colored people do not have the rights white people do. Atticus has the courage to believe what is unbelievable. He knows somethings are never going to be the way they are, but that doesn't stop him from believing. Atticus treats all men equally and when he took the Tom Robinson case he knew that since he was colored something would go wrong. Atticus imagines himself to be the person before saying or doing anything mean. He put himself inside Tom Robinson and thinks about how he feels. How colored people feel being treated unfairly. He has the patience to wait and find out the results for himself. He knows that Tom Robinson did not rape Mayella Ewell. He fears for Tom Robinson's life because he will not be able to return back to his family or his loved ones due to