Theme of Courage in To Kill A Mocking Bird :: Harper Lee

To Kill A Mocking Bird- bravenessWithin the unfermented to kill a mocking bird the character genus Atticus finch defines resolution as, Courage is when you know youre licked beforehand you begin, but you begin leastways and you jaw it through no matter what. Atticus takes the first flavor by being courageous to take the tomcat Robinson case, defying the towns liking of prejudice, as yet his own sister thinks that he is disgracing the family by winning the case he explains with concern The only thing weve got is a black mans word against the Ewells. The record boils down to you-did-I-didnt. The jury couldnt possibly be expected to take Tom Robinsons word against the Ewells.Scout believes at the beginning of the book that courage is either to do with physical feats like fist fighting. Scout and Jem though Atticus was courageous when he shot the mad dog, but Atticus except shrugged it off telling his children that that is not ?real courage?. The children soon see that moral courage is more valuable afterward Miss Dubose tell Your fathers no better than the niggers and trash he works for Chapter 11, Page 113 after they walked past her house. On the way back Atticus just walked by and told Mrs. Dubose, ?you look as pretty as a picture? Mrs. Dubose was so stunned that she could not say a word back to him. afterwards Jem and scout leaned how courageous Mrs. Dubose really was after Jem cut up her camellia bushes, the kids found out that she was a morphine attic brave enough to get off the drug that killed her.Atticus was incredibly courageous victorious on tom Robinsons case against the prejudice of Macomb County and he shows incredible courage when he says, Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try and won. He wants the concourse of Maycomb to hear the truth about Tom Robinson, That boy may go to the chair, but hes not going till the truths told. Chapter 15, Page 146. He was against the hale whit e community including his own sister practically said that he was a disgrace to his family Atticus tells scout when she asks him why he is taking the case he says For a number of reasons. The main one is, if I didnt I couldnt hold up my head in town, I couldnt institute this county in the legislature, I couldnt even tell you or Jem not to do something again.