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    The Courage in To Kill A Mockingbird Bam! Bam! Bam! “Order in the court! I find the defendant guilty of all charges. You will be hanged for this offense.” This was the sentence for Tom Robinson‚ a courageous black who stood up to defend himself in court. It took great courage to stand up for blacks back in that time. Atticus Finch was very courageous to stand up for a man who had done no wrong; many people gave him grief for doing his job. There is indeed great courage in this story‚ not only Atticus’s

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    <u>Mother Courage</u> contains a quote that pulls the entire play together so innocuously; it’s hard to believe that Brecht originally intended it to be so symbolic. Yet‚ there it is‚ in scene six‚ the chaplain rhetorically asks‚ "What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?" This line operates on the three essential layers of the play: the level of the character‚ of the playwright (plot)‚ and of the audience. <br><br>On "face" value‚ this line is said about peace. The chaplain believes that

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    • Calpurnia’s act of courage shows when she takes Jem and Scout to First Purchase African M.E. Church. In my point of view I think Calpurnia did a courageous act because not knowing what could happen to Jem and Scout she still took the risk of taking them. Once they got there a member from First Purchase African M.E. Church named Lula disliked them because they were white “Lula stopped‚ but she said‚ ‘You ain’ t got no business bringin’ white chillun here – they got their church we got our’n.’’(119)

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    Courage‚ the quality of your mind or spirit that helps you to face your problems. From the book To Kill a Mockingbird many of the characters show courage. Courage helps us through life‚ like it did for the characters in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. As in all books‚ there are characters‚ and in this book there are very many. Each individual character shows courage. One character out of many‚ Jean (Scout)‚ had courage the story. Scout had courage from the beginning to the end. She had to face

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    Faith not Fear ¨Courage is acting in faith despite your feelings of fear.¨ (Joel Balin) Fear is strong and controlling emotion. Although‚ a person who has faith and a good well being can conquer the vigorous feeling of fear. The Mirabel sisters from The Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez displayed courage in the own way throughout the book. Patria displayed courage not just by her involvement in the movement‚ but how she would do anything to keep her family safe. Courage is demonstrated through

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    As a child grows and matures‚ so does their idea of courage. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird shows this maturation of courage through the protagonist‚ Scout. The novel is set in 1930s south; the town can be compared to most towns of the time where rumors spread and everyone knows everyone else’s stories. This town gossip leads to Scout’s early idea of courage. Scout’s perspective of courage grows from seeing Jem perform a courageous act of touching the Radley house‚ to seeing Atticus take

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    of the word courage. It is a term that you hear many different times from many different types of people. Every time you hear the word it has a different meaning or is viewed in a different sense. Looking at it what is something that can define what is an agreeable sense of real courage. Real courage can be described by three different traits that hopefully everyone can agree on. Those three traits are strength‚ wisdom‚ and love. Strength is the first characteristic of real courage because it is

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    Courage Appears from the Most Unlikely People Courage‚ something that comes in many forms‚ hiding in every corner‚ but not always seen. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee portrays many forms of courage through the actions of her characters. The three characters‚ which from my perspective‚ revealed their courage via their actions within this novel are Mrs. Dubose‚ Jem and Atticus. Courage comes in many shapes and sizes and is often overlooked in the everyday individuals. One example is

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    many people showed different types courage. Atticus was one of the persons who showed the most courage throughout To Kill a Mockingbird because he defended Tom Robinson. Mayella Ewell had a lot of courage to accuse Tom Robinson of rapping her just because he was a black man. Calpurnia also had a lot of courage because she was a black woman working for a white family. First is about Atticus defending an indecent black man in court. Atticus showed a lot of courage because he defended a black man in

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    Moral courage is a quality many hope to have‚ but cannot achieve. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbrid‚ by Harper Lee‚ she uses a character named Atticus Finch‚ the father of the main characters‚ to show moral courage. She uses Atticus to show readers that despite not knowing the outcome‚ one can still succeed if one musters enough courage. Throughout the novel‚ Atticus shows evidence of being a brave man. He helps Tom Robinson when the lynch mob came to take him‚ he shot a rabid dog‚ saving the entire

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