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To Kill A Mockingbird Moral Courage Essay

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Moral courage, spiritual courage, social courage, emotional courage, and physical courage is shown in To Kill A Mockingbird which is a good thing. Just like in the beginning of the book when Scout describes how Jem wouldn’t give up even though his left arm wasn’t normal he shows moral courage, spiritual courage, emotional courage, and physical courage. All Jem dreams of doing is joining the football team, but his arm wasn’t good enough, and he is giving his best and showing the four most important types of courage which are moral courage, spiritual courage, emotional courage, and physical courage. He went ahead and pursued his dreams even though he did not imagine to be like the way he is when his left arm is damaged, but he still followed his dream of playing football, and he did not make his damaged elbow wreck his Dreams. …show more content…

Scout thought she was just telling the teacher that he was a Cunningham and he did not have money for Lunch. Even though Scout beat him up later for making her get in trouble; Jem took the next level of courage which was emotional courage and asked Walter to come home for Dinner with them and that was also really nice Jem even though Scout didn’t want him to come to her house for dinner. Scout was very curious throughout the whole dinner, but the one that got Scout in trouble was when she said why did Walter put syrup on everything on his plate. Calpurnia tells Scout that is not how to talk to someone you invite to dinner so she told Scout to come and eat in the kitchen, and scout had enough physical courage to walk back into the living room to grab her plate and eat in the kitchen even though she was humiliated by what

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