Believe in Yourself to Have The Courage

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W. Clement Stone once said, “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” The same words apply on three major characters of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The three characters demonstrate courage by standing up, saying no and becomeing who they really are. By looking at Boo Radley killing Bob Ewell, Jem touching the radley’s house and Atticus’s stand against the court, it demonstrates various types of courage through the lives of the novel’s characters.
Boo Radley is taking a really big stand when he go out for the first time in seven years and protected Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell. Boo Radley watches Jem and Scout since a while kills Bob Ewell who wanted to revenge from Atticus by killing his children. While going back from the school to their home, Bob Ewell attacks them. “We were nearly the road when I felt Jem’s hand leave me…more scuffling and there came a dull crunching sound and Jem screamed…suddenly he was jerked backwards and flung on the ground…the scuffling noise were dying; someone wheezed and the night was still again”(262), Scout describing what happened that night. The night begins with Aunt Alexandria foreshadowing something bad will happen to Jem and scout. Scout also notices a strange look on her face; Scout knows that her Aunt is worried about something. As Jem and scout walking to home they start hearing noises; they think that Cecil Jacobs is trying to frighten them. Jem and Scout are near their home so they assume that they are in a safe place but is does not seems so. As Bob Ewell taking Jem away and he screams, Boo Radly decides that it is time for him to stand up and have the cou...

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...take” (218), Atticus explains to his son. Atticus wants his children to learn the lesson because he is against Bob Ewell and his daughter. This does not mean that she has to hate them but to also defend them. This demonstrates that Atticus is a courageous person.
By looking at Boo Radley killing Bob Ewell, Jem touching the radley’s house and Atticus’s stand against the court, it demonstrates various types of courage through the lives of the novel’s characters. To kill a mockingbird is about courage and how the characters face problems that they have to deal with them by courage. As W. Clement Stone once said “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

Works Cited

Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. New York: WARNER BOOKS EDITION, 1960. Print.

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