Character Analysis Of Mrs. Dubose In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
“Success is not final, Failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue even without a guarantee of success that counts.” In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee she can change the way a person sees something in the blink of eye, she shows courage in so many ways. Harper Lee uses Mrs.Dubose as a character to show courage. She uses Mrs.Dubose as one of Atticus’s example to show Jem what real courage is. A part that shows this is when Mrs.Dubose is sick in bed and Jem comes and reads to her and Atticus explains the situation she is in. She also uses Scout as an example of courage as well.So in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee uses characters to show what real courage is. She uses Mrs.Dubose when she was getting off her morphine addiction.Scout by showing her when she stood up
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Scout is getting into a fight at school, because a boy named Cecil Jacobs is taunting her father. They are both in the school yard“ With this in mind, I faced Cecil Jacobs in the school- yard the next day: you gonna take that back boy? You gotta make me first he yelled. My folks said your daddy was a disgrace an’ that nigger oughta hang from the water tank! I drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away. Scout’s a cow----ward ringing in my ear” (Lee 102)This shows courage because even though she wants to fight she remembers Atticus and obeys, this shows courage because she did what was right even though she didn’t want to. This shows that she has grown up a bit.This show courage too because she chooses the right choice even if she thought she shouldn’t have.( being called a coward, walking away from a
Scout is getting into a fight at school, because a boy named Cecil Jacobs is taunting her father. They are both in the school yard“ With this in mind, I faced Cecil Jacobs in the school- yard the next day: you gonna take that back boy? You gotta make me first he yelled. My folks said your daddy was a disgrace an’ that nigger oughta hang from the water tank! I drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away. Scout’s a cow----ward ringing in my ear” (Lee 102)This shows courage because even though she wants to fight she remembers Atticus and obeys, this shows courage because she did what was right even though she didn’t want to. This shows that she has grown up a bit.This show courage too because she chooses the right choice even if she thought she shouldn’t have.( being called a coward, walking away from a