In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the characters Jem, Scout, and Atticus exhibit courage numerous times throughout the story. Atticus shows examples of courage through his decision to defend Tom Robinson and the values that he sets for his children. It takes a courageous person to face the negative remarks in the society that he lives in. He risks everything he has to defend a black man who was falsely accused of raping a white woman because he believes it is the right thing to do. “If I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in the legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again”.
To Kill a Mockingbird – Courage To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a heroic tale of leadership and courage. Courage is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. According to Atticus Finch, “Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It’s knowing you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” (Lee, 149).
The film The Outsiders has three main heroes; Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, and Matt Dillon. These actors were outstanding at playing their roles, and their characters matched the book almost perfectly.
Brothers Are The Same The New World Dictionary defines courageous as “The state of quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger with self possession confidence, and resolution; bravery.” Just like kids standing up to their bully and telling them to stop after many years of pain. In the short story “ Brothers Are The Same”, by Beryl Markham, Medoto proves to be such a character. His audacious domineer made Temas believe he thought dissatisfactory of him. This manipulated him to letting his nerves get the most of him, when he fought to be warrior. The first way that Medoto showed his undaunted side was when he sought out his jealously “ My comrade, we who are Masai know the saying, a man asks not
In the beginning of the story, Brother recounts the day Doodle was born, saying that he was a disappointment as soon as he entered the world. The narrator was not satisfied with his brother, which resulted in the horrible things he thought about him. Brother said that “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable…” As a result, the narrator enjoyed torturing Doodle, threatening to abandon him multiple times. He even took Doodle to see the casket that was built for him, and forced him to touch it. The narrator basked in the control he had over his brother.
In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, it is established from the beginning that Ender is an outcast. This is first recognised when we find out he is a third child. In the book Card makes out that it is only normal to have 2 children but Ender is an exception. We see Peter his brother bully him because of this. At first limits his heroism, as Ender believes this is true, “like us they keep the little sucker till he’s six years old.
Over the years he eventually changed huge parts of his appearance to appeal to the ideals his father had in mind for his life. Michael’s father grew abusive to the point of perminently damaging michaels emtional stability. Growing as a kid star with all the emotional damage Michael’s father created left Michael with a void he needed to fill. A void that could only be filled by Attention and Attachments (Houses, elaborate lifestyle, Animals and Media.) As you can imagine these
Atticus tells his son that he wanted him to read to Mrs Dubose so he would understand that real courage was not demonstrated by a gun. “I wanted you to see something about her – 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. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her.
One of the main adventures Scout and Jem experience is the mystery of their neighbor Boo Radley, whom at the end of the novel they discover to be nothing like the evil figure Maycomb’s rumors portrayed him to be. One of the themes of To Kill A Mockingbird is bravery, supported through the way the Finch family deals with the many obstacles present throughout the novel. Jem Finch demonstrates bravery through the way he deals with various situations. When Jem, Scout, and Dill find Atticus in front of the jailhouse surrounded by countrymen ready to kill Tom Robinson and harm anyone in their way, Atticus tells Jem to go home, “...but from the way he stood Jem was not thinking of budging...Jem shook his head. As Atticus’ fists went to
Okonkwo was scared of people thinking he was just like his father so he worked hard since he was a child. This made him hate everything his father was made of, which is weakness and being lazy. ”Even as a little boy he had resented his father’s failure and weakness”. (13). when Okonkwo father died he had been in a lot of debt, Okonkwo became obsessed with the idea of manliness in order to get over his father weakness.