Scout matures immensely in just a few years. She must go through her childhood with no mother, a busy father, and an aunt that is

Courage is another issue that shows up in the story. Atticus shows much courage in the face of opposition. He sets an ideal example for his children and the townspeople. He shows respectability and humility throughout the trial, even when he is threatened, spat at, and confronted by a mob. "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," Atticus tells Jem. Atticus has courage because he sees the trial through to the end when he knows that there is about absolutely no chance of winning. He protects Tom from of mob of men without budging an inch. Although he may have been afraid, he shows courage in the face of danger. Scout also mentions her father's gallantry when she remarks, "He [Atticus] would tell her [Mrs. Dubose] the courthouse news, and say he hoped with all his heart she'd have a good day tomorrow. He would return his hat to his head, swing me to his shoulders in her very presence, and we would go home in the twilight. It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived." Mrs. Dubose is also another great example of a courageous person. She is an ill elderly woman who is addicted to morphine. She is given morphine to dull her excruciating pain. One of her last wishes before she passes away is to die free from her addiction. She has Jem come over everyday after school and read to her to get her mind off the morphine. Finally Mrs. Dubose passes and she goes "beholden to nothing and nobody."

All these examples relate to the real world. For instance, people who stand up for others, like Scout did for Tom and her father, often get persecuted along with them. Even in the work place racism is an issue as it was with Cal and Alexandra. Many people get jobs or at least think they deserve a job more because they are supposedly of a "superior" race. Even in the law there are problems due to skin color as there was in the Tom Robinson case. A specific example of this point is in the O.J. Simpson trial. Mark Furhman, a known racist, planted evidence against O.J. (Even though we all know he did it, but that's not really the point here. But don't fret, because O.J. is still searching for those murderers!). So even today bigotry is an issue in a court of law, not to mention the endless number of other places where it is prese

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