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A Comparison Of Courage In To Kill A Mockingbird And The Help

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Courage is one of the most important character traits a person can have. Robert Francis Kennedy once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Courage is shown in both the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the movie The Help directed by Tate Taylor. Both the book and movie’s theme of courage, the ability to do the right thing despite challenges and oppressions, is shown through the characters’ action, symbolism, and dialogue. Courage is conveyed through the characters’ actions in the book To Kill A Mockingbird and the movie The Help. Atticus from To Kill A Mockingbird is a white, Southern lawyer in Maycomb County, Alabama. He adamantly defends Tom Robinson, a negro who had allegedly raped a white woman, even knowing that his prejudiced county would convict him. This exemplifies courage because a white man to seeking equality for a black man was not accepted in their time period, a place of extreme racial segregation. Yet, Atticus defended Tom already knowing that he will lose. In The …show more content…

“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.”(Lee 149) This quote is from Atticus Finch and this is the definition of what a courage is. This specific quote will affect the characters throughout the book. “Courage is daring to do what is right in spite of the weakness of our flesh” This quote is by Preacher Green in The Help and this is also an accurate definition of courage. Through Dialogue both To Kill A Mockingbird and The Help was equally accurate conveying courage. Courage is not a man with a gun but doing and standing up for what is right despite our disadvantages or

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