Focusing your answer on the two given extracts discuss how real courage is shown in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’.

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Focusing your answer on the two given extracts discuss how real courage is shown in 'To Kill A Mockingbird'.

In this novel, Harper Lee explores a range of different themes. From prejudice and segregation due to race and class to societies beliefs to the right and wrong. The major theme which runs through out this novel is courage. Courage is demonstrated in many ways, such as physical courage, standing up to what you believe in, overcoming personal fears and even childhood dares are all a form of this theme. I would like to determine what 'real courage' means to both Harper Lee and to the characters of this novel. I will do this by analysing two extracts which represent the courage shown in this book.

The death of Mrs.Dubose shocked Jem as he had no thought to the pain Mrs.Dubose inflected upon her body as she tried desperately to rid herself of her morphine addiction. Jem had always regarded her as an utterly revolting person who was barely fit to be called a lady. He never considered her as his father's role model or the bravest women