To Kill a Mockingbird Courage Essay

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a first person narrative describing the life of Jem and Scout, a brother and sister who are the main protagonists of the novel. Jem and Scout grow up in a town where they are constantly surrounded by racial inequality, social unrest and prejudice. Jem Finch is considered a normal young boy growing up in the small Alabama town of Maycomb. Like his friends Jem likes to likes take part in activities that are perceived to be masculine in nature such as sports.…

themes throughout this novel and is crucial to how the characters come together. Jem Finch is one of the significant examples that resembles the coming of age and matures over the course of 3 years. During the events in chapters 1- 31 in To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem has signifficantly grown from a childish, playful boy that he was from the begining of the novel, to a more calm, composed…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee portrays Atticus Finch as the perfect father and man in general. Because of this, it is easy to say that he is one of the most beloved characters in American literature. Although he has many strengths that make him the great father he is, he does have a weakness that readers seem to overlook. Atticus Finch is not always the most responsible Father for his children. Often times Jem and Scout are left unsupervised and although Atticus has a demanding…

Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, depicts different themes and topics that are still important and relevant to today’s society. To Kill a Mockingbird has themes such as prejudice, growing up, and bravery and uses those topics to teach humanity a variety of lessons. Boo Radley and Tom Robinson both face extreme prejudice; one has been forced to be a shut in ever since he was young and another got sent to Death simply for his skin while Scout and Jem show their gradual loss of…

education. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader is taken through the story of Scout and Jem Finch’s childhood in the lazy town of Maycomb County, Alabama. Through the characters of Atticus and Boo Radley, Jem and Scout learn lessons of courage and false judgment which helps Lee convey the message that certain lessons crucial to a child’s intellectual growth are taught outside of school. Lee uses Jem and Scout’s father, Atticus, to teach them about courage and what it means to be…

Steve Jobs once said, “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life...have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” By this he means don't let the voices and beliefs of others overrule yours, but instead follow your own intuition. This is exactly what Atticus teaches his children in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel, Atticus shows his children that even though everyone may be against your belief or stand on something, continue to think for yourself…

Ambrose Redmoon once said, “Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.” This quote is expressing that courage is not the lack of fear; it is the triumph over it. A courageous person is not one who has no fear or worries. It is one who has fear but preserves through any situation instead of backing down. To Kill A mockingbird expresses that courage is an emotion that makes people push to go beyond their normal actions and strive for what…

to “write what they know”. In many cases this rings to be true, perhaps the writers will set their story in a place they once lived, base a character on someone they once knew. It’s quite evident that in the novels Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird there are striking similarities between these novels and their respective authors’ own lives. It could be said, that these authors simply used their own experiences as inspiration to their novels. However, when taken into consideration…

Growing Up With Courage “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are” said E. E. cummings, a poet. This quote relates to the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee because the three people I believe that show courage while growing up are Scout, Jem, and Dill. All three of these characters are young when the story begins and you read about them growing up. As they grow up they show courage in many different ways. I believe that people could learn courage from the characters…

because it had been a long day and she was tired. Her actions that day started a protest of the bus companies ' practices that would grow into a movement that changed not only Montgomery, Alabama but our nation. (Wilson,). Even though the novel To Kill a Mockingbird was before the time of Rosa Parks they still have many connections between them, the main connection to both Rosa Parks and the novel is the racism in both stories, like Calpurnia, Mr. Dolphus Raymond’s story and most importantly the…