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Courage in To Kill a Mockingbird

cision to face reality and act accordingly, most importantly in the context of human relationships. In other words, while courage is certainly manifested and expressed in action, that action is first and foremost rooted in a flexible, loving and compassionate attitude.

Certainly Atticus himself qualifies as courageous. Not only does he try to live according to his idealistic, liberal and pacifist principles, he also rejects ample opportunities to judge the bigoted and ignorant people around him, and instead concludes, after the young narrator Scout says that Stoner's Boy was "real nice," that "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them" (281).

Courage is also the willingness and ability to see reality even when that perception runs contrary to the perception of others. Scout is a character who habitually sees the truth of a set of circumstances and simply and clearly declares it again and again. Of her brother she

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