To Kill A Mockingbird Courage Outline Essay

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Gina Wright

5th Hour Honors

02 February 2023

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Intro:

1. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)

2. The strength in courage though is not confidence or morality and it is definitely not a gun. The strength is pure perseverance.

3. The famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird is about the upbringing of two young children into a corrupt society. The author Harper Lee also chooses to include the tragic trail of a colored man and the story of an unknown neighbor.

4. The characters Scout and Jem Finch, Atticus Finch, Arthur Radley, and so many more exemplify courage in this novel. Harper Lee uses these acts of courage in order to get a point

Some people say they have courage, even though they do not have real courage.

2. Real courage is the pure perseverance needed in order to push past obstacles.

3. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand” (Lee 149).

4. This is what Atticus wanted Jem to learn from the death of Mrs. Dubose. Mrs. Dubose turned out to be a courageous older woman who happened to be a morphine addict. Mrs. Dubose used her perseverance and courage to push through and finish her life completely drug free, thus fulfilling her dying wishes.

5 “It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyways and see it through now matter what” (Lee 149).

6. Atticus then continues on to explain courage to Jem with the quote above. The first part of the quote is Atticus explaining that one will know the outcome before one starts and continues on anyways. The second part being that even if one knows the outcome will be unfortunate or unfavorable, one will see it all the way to the end and stick with it.

7. Moreover, many people in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird have stuck through to unfortunate outcomes using

Starting off with the courage of two young children, Jem and Scout Finch.

2. Jem and Scout have both used courage in many different experiences from the novel.

3. “Go home, Jem, he said. Take Scout and Dill home” (Lee 203).

4. The line above resides in chapter fifteen when a mob had come to the jail where Atticus had made sure to stay and protect Tom Robinson. Jem knew the outcome could have been bad, but shows courage when he refuses to leave the jailhouse in order to protect Atticus.

5 Scout also shows courage in this same instance when she addresses the mob about entailments. “Entailments are bad, I was advising him, when I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation” (Lee 205).

6. This is the second time Scout tries to talk about entailments. Scout used her perseverance from courage to unknowingly influence the mob.

7. Not only do the children have courage, but many adults also exemplify courage in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Body paragraph 3

1. Two adults who showed massive amounts of courage are Atticus Finch and Arthur Radley.

2. Atticus and Arthur both show courage in order to help