Ways in Which Individuals Display Different Types of Courage By: Madison Waldie There are many types of courage, social, moral and intellectual are just a few. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee all of the different characters show different types of courage. Atticus shows intellectual courage and moral courage and Scout, Jem and Dill show social courage. Intellectual courage speaks to our willingness to engage with challenging ideas to question our thinking and to the risk of making mistakes. It means discerning and telling the truth. Atticus shows this type of courage throughout the book he challenges himself every time he takes a case for a black person because he knows he will most likely lose but he knows he is the only one who will help them. There is always a risk in being a lawyer, one wrong word and the person you are representing could be put behind bars or like in the book killed. He has to tell the truth when in court because if you lie people with think you are hiding something, and if you were in the book and you were black and your lawyer lies and the judge finds out you would be even more suspicious to them. …show more content…
Here we enter into ethics and integrity. The integrity to match word and action with values and ideals. It’s not about who we claim to be around our children and to others but who we reveal ourselves to be through our words and actions. Atticus shows this throughout the book as well. Atticus was doing the right thing defending Tom even when the risks involve opposition and the disapproval of others. Everyone said he was a n***** lover for always defending blacks. He showed compassion hiding Tom for the people who wanted to kill him at the jail. That overall shows courage because he knew the risks in protecting him, he could get himself and Tom