The central thematic topic in To Kill a Mockingbird is courage for an extensive range of reasons that will be mentioned throughout this essay. To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee and was first published on July 11, 1960. Around this time America is greatly struggling with racial discrimination and equality, and in this novel, it explicitly focuses on this topic. The outstanding thematic topic in To Kill a Mockingbird is courage which is found throughout the entire novel and it is woven through each and every character, there are several influential examples of this, but I will focus on the three most significant ones which are, Atticus taking Tom’s case, Boo escaping Nathan Radley’s wrath to save Scout and Jem and Mrs. Dubose’s addiction.
The first and arguably the most significant example of courage in To Kill a Mockingbird is when Atticus decides to take Tom Robinson’s case even though he is …show more content…
Meaning to help Tom it meant going against the entire town, but Atticus did this because of his superior sense of what is right and his beliefs that everyone is equal, because Atticus could have easily had of taken the case and not tried at all and protected his pride throughout the town but, he realized that if he didn’t do everything in his power to try and get Tom released he wouldn’t be able to tell his kids to ever do anything without being a hypocrite himself. Taking this case was also made especially hard and required an extra amount of bravery because of Maycomb’s disease and the fact that Maycomb is located in the South where tensions still run high from the civil war so I believe that this also made his decision a whole lot harder too. Unlike the other members of
The first and arguably the most significant example of courage in To Kill a Mockingbird is when Atticus decides to take Tom Robinson’s case even though he is …show more content…
Meaning to help Tom it meant going against the entire town, but Atticus did this because of his superior sense of what is right and his beliefs that everyone is equal, because Atticus could have easily had of taken the case and not tried at all and protected his pride throughout the town but, he realized that if he didn’t do everything in his power to try and get Tom released he wouldn’t be able to tell his kids to ever do anything without being a hypocrite himself. Taking this case was also made especially hard and required an extra amount of bravery because of Maycomb’s disease and the fact that Maycomb is located in the South where tensions still run high from the civil war so I believe that this also made his decision a whole lot harder too. Unlike the other members of