To Kill a Mockingbird Courage Essay

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 50 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus Finch chooses to defend an African American against many racist southerners. Knowing he had little chance of winning the case, he still pursued it making him a very fair and courageous man. He is fair because he treats everybody respectfully and equal no matter what color their skin is. He is courageous for trying to save an innocent man even though everyone was against him. And finally Atticus is a respected person in maycomb for being a great…

    • 510 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout Finch, the protagonist, learns about racism, injustice, and empathy in this coming-of-age story. As an impressionable child, the actions and words of those around her have an influence on her. Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, makes decisions that largely influence the people and events around him. Although he makes some questionable decisions, he cares about his children and does a commendable job at parenting. Atticus teaches his two children about…

    • 495 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    audacity during the Civil Rights Movement. He stood up for what is right even when no one believed in him. He risked his life for people he did not even know. He wanted to be noticed and heard. Martin Luther King Jr. is a leader. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus, Scout, and Calpurnia have…

    • 664 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee suggests the prejudice attitudes of most citizens in Maycomb affect Atticus by motivating him to share and spread his substantive grip on reality in hopes to change the common man's…

    • 1038 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    She puts this theme in To Kill a Mockingbird as a message to readers about how good people can do bad things, and how good and evil are both part of the human condition and part of being a person. Even though this is true, she also uses this as a message to readers indirectly telling them…

    • 855 Words
    • 4 Pages
    • 1 Works Cited
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    white child in southern America, during the times of segregation, may seem effortless. Although, embedded into the ideology of prejudice and racism, two children named Jem and Scout, defined the age in which these issues become intolerable. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel and a film about a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout, who lived in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. She and her brother, Jeremy, learned about morality and many life lessons, including to not…

    • 1336 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Robinson in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird is an example of an admirable person. In the novel there are many characters who are rude, mean and racist. Tom is one of the few characters who proved to be an admirable person.The novel takes place in a time when racism towards black people was normal, but throughout the book Tom Robinson shows many characteristics such as courage, perseverance, and integrity. The first trait Tom shows is courage. Tom offers Mayella a…

    • 820 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    the day where someone will not be judged based on their appearance rather than who they truly are as a person. The day where one could walk up and down the street and not immediately get judged. This is a prevalent concept in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, which, takes place during a racist and gender biased time in history. Fortunately, Atticus Finch, a strong, educated, unbiased man installs the life lesson of, “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point…

    • 768 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    point of view, until you climb around in his skin and walk around in it.” This quote shows that one should not judge another person, until one considers what they are going through in life. This quote is said by Atticus Finch in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch and her older brother Jem, live in the small, sleepy town of Maycomb, Alabama. During school she befriends Walter Cunningham, a poor child who the town considers dirty. When Walter goes over to Scout’s house, he…

    • 1713 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    one because of what he teaches. That character is Atticus Finch from the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. In June of 2003, The American Film Institute named Atticus Finch the greatest hero of 100 years of film history. He deserves this award because he shows and teaches empathy, modesty, courage, and ethics. One reason that Atticus deserves this award is because he shows and teaches his children courage. One night Atticus was at the local jail because he heard that a mob might try…

    • 1087 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Page 1 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
    Next