"I wanted you to know what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun." What kinds of courage and Heroism are shown in To Kill a Mockingbird? Courage was a theme often explored by Harper Lee and her novel 'To kill a Mockingbird'; many characters in 'To kill a Mockingbird' display the gift of courage, but Harper Lee does not just scratch the surface of courage she …showed first 75 words of 745 total…

…showed last 75 words of 745 total…service an' draggin' him with his shy ways into the limelight - to me, that's a sin.' P.g 304 Examples of True courage are not hard to come by in 'To kill a Mockingbird'; Harper Lee prides many of the characters in the novel on their Courage. In particular Atticus, Mrs. Dubose and Arthur Radley show examples of true courage and/or heroism at different parts in the text or throughout the whole text.