To Kill A Mockingbird Research Paper

Many people in both To Kill A Mockingbird and in reality have been affected by courage in many positive ways. Courage allows people to follow through on things that need to be done, that would not otherwise be done. A world with the absence of courage would be a very dull world where everyone is alone and the same. Courage has allowed people to do the right thing without thinking and to do what they believe in. Courage has allowed people to stand up for the right thing rather than be afraid and let something wrong happen. For example, when Scout asked Atticus why he was defending a negro he responded by saying, “for a number of reasons” (Lee 75). One of the reasons he is defending a negro is because he has the courage to stand up for a man …show more content…
There was a point in To Kill A Mockingbird when Scout was talking about Calpurnia and said, “she had taught me to write and it was all her fault” (Lee 33). Calpurnia showed courage by teaching the children to write at a time and place when it was not the most acceptable or usual thing to do. She had the courage to do it even though others might not have. There was another act of courage that took place at a Dairy Queen restaurant when a blind man dropped a 20 dollar bill and another lady picked it up and put it in her purse. The manager confronted her and she refused to give it back. The manager gave the blind man a 20 dollar bill out of his own wallet because he didn’t feel that it was right for him to ripped off like that (Darcy). The manager had the courage to do the right thing and try to get the blind man his 20 dollar bill back. He performed this act of courage simply because he thought it was the right thing to do. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Boo Radley had a great act of courage when he saved Scout and Dill from being killed by Mr. Ewell (Lee 262-263). Boo Radley was very courageous and went out of his way to save the two kids and put himself in danger. He could have stayed in his house to keep himself a secret, but instead, he went into the forest to save the kids and risked exposing

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