To Kill a Mockingbird Courage Essay

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”. In the award winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is a single dad with two children-Scout and Jem-who are six and nine years old. Throughout the book, Scout and Jem experience many mysteries, one being about Boo Radley; the neighbor who apparently has been locked inside for decades. Atticus had a…

Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird there are some extraordinarily courageous characters. The most courageous would be Atticus Finch. Atticus is one of the main characters in the book. He is the father of the narrator. Mr. Finch is also one of the best lawyers in the county. Moreover, Atticus is a courageous character in the story because he defended Tom Robinson (a black man) even when he was almost positive they would lose. Atticus sums up his own definition of courage, he said that “Courage is when…

Published in 1960, To Kill A Mockingbird allowed Harper Lee to demonstrate the prejudice against negroes by using Atticus Finch, a white lawyer, who bravely defended Tom Roberson, a negro, and his false accusation for rape of a white woman. The daughter of Mr. Finch, Scout, narrates the story of this trial of Tom Roberson. “She is an innocent, good-hearted, five year old girl who has no experience with the evil of the world; however, as the novel progresses, she sees firsthand the evil in form…

From what I have noticed from reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the theme of gender equality affects the way females are portrayed and even treated. After retrieving the tire from Boo Radley’s front yard, Jem, Scout’s older brother says, “I swear Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’” (page 50). Jem implies that being a girl is portrayed as being an annoyance or even dead weight to him as well as not wanting to hang out with them at all. This correlates with how…

Books do more than just tell stories; they have the power to inspire, educate, and transform lives. For fifty-six years, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird has been an influential social commentary on prejudice in the deep south. Controversial at its inception for its progressive attitude towards civil rights, the novel has since become a staple in classrooms around the world for its message of equality and compassion. Elie Wiesel’s Night is a powerful narrative of his own…

In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee we are introduced to the Finches, a white middle class family living in the middle of a racial battle of the whites against the blacks. Atticus Finch, a lawyer and widowed father to Scout and Jem Finch, demonstrates resilient moral courage, scaling many obstacles to be an honest and respectable role model to Scout and Jem and to teach them to be open-minded as well as accepting of everyone they meet. He also shows true acts of colorblindness by…

southern America, during the times of segregation, may seem effortless. Although, two youngsters named Jem and Scout are embedded into the ideology and realization of prejudice and racism much earlier than one may think could be possible. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel and film about a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, who lived in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. She and her brother, Jem Finch, learn about morality and many life lessons, including to not destroy something…

In the novel, “To KIll a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee many characters changed and evolved throughout the book. Jem has evolved the most throughout the book because he is growing up and becoming more like his dad. One of jem's for major events that made him become more mature was reading with Mrs. Dubose, The school play, and the court case. First of all, one of jem's first events that shows he is going into adulthood was reading to Mrs. Dubose. Atticus to Jem that,“people are…

The book To Kill A Mockingbird is based in Maycomb, Alabama around the 1930s. The book is about a trial that takes place during one summer of the narrator’s, Scout Finch, life. One of the main characters in this book was Atticus Finch. Atticus is personally my favorite character. He is a great father and an amazing lawyer. Throughout the book he taught his children and the readers important lessons about racism and prejudice people. He impacted the book greatly, and without him, the readers…

The Unknown Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel filled with the persecution of innocent people represented as mockingbirds. The Author, Harper Lee, created a community of people who are persecuted, judged, and attacked despite their innocence. Lee uses the mockingbird as a symbol of innocence. In the book she says mockingbirds are innocent and commit no evil act. The birds only sing their songs for people to hear. The people of Maycomb are no exception, they live out their days…