Atticus Courage

To Kill a Mockingbird is a book about Scout Finch who lives with her brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, in the sleepy Alabama town of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a prominent lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society.There are multiple themes in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee. However, one of the most important is courage. This theme is shown almost by all of the characters in the novel but mainly by Jem, Scout and Atticus. Courage is shown in the novel in different ways by the three of them.

Atticus is probably the most courageous character of the novel. Since Scout narrates the story and defends her dad when he stood up for a black man in court, she admires her father, she describes with detail his qualities, many which involve courage. According to atticus,
For example at Christmas when her cousin francis come he was calling her dad mean names for defending a black man at court. Instead of biting her tongue, scout made the courageous decision to stand up and take the punishment of first using her words to defend her dad and then her fist. Another way she show courage is when she stood up to her teacher that told her she isn’t aloud to read anymore because she was ahead of her class. Scout stood up for the fact that she believed it was wrong and felt she didn’t need to stop reading because her dad reads to her all the time.

The last person out of the three that showed a lot of courage was Jem. He stood up for his dad also when Cecil Jacobs was calling him bad names and he stepped in while scout was yelling at him. Once again Jem sticks up for Scout when Mrs.Dubose starts yelling at Scout, Jem goes and destroys her flowers. Jem shows courage by rebelling with actions and words to the people that are saying and doing mean things to his family members or love ones no matter the