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To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Chapter Eleven Summary

Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose Character Analysis

For Scout, Mrs. Dubose is a distressing object, a force that takes over their afternoons after Jem goes crazy on her camellias, barely human. It’s not until after she dies that Scout and Jem get a sense of what’s going on behind the drool and venom: Mrs. Dubose is a morphine addict who had vowed to go clean before she died, and enlisted Jem and Scout (without their knowledge) to keep her off the stuff for longer and longer periods of time. Atticus tells the kids the lesson he hopes they’ve learned from her.

“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. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.” (11.*)

Even though no one would have blamed Mrs. Dubose if she had wanted to leave this world in narcotic bliss, she decided to try to do what she felt was right, no matter how impossible it seemed or how painful it was. Hmm, sounds like a person whose name begins with “A” and ends with “tticus.” Overcoming Mrs. Dubose is a valuable experience for both Jem and Scout as they move unknowingly towards the Robinson trial, though it’s unclear whether admiring her bravery or learning to brave her cantankerousness without exploding is the more useful lesson.

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Courage

Many people, including Jem and Scout when they’re young, mix up courage with strength. They think that courage is the ability and willingness to use strength to get your way. But Atticus defines courage as “when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” Courage, in To Kill a Mockingbird, is not about winning or losing. It’s about thinking long and hard about what’s right instead of relying on personal prejudice or gut reaction, and then doing what’s right whether you win or lose. To Kill a Mockingbird is filled with examples of courage, from Mrs. Dubose’s fight against her morphine addiction, to Atticus’s determination to face down the racism of the town, to Mr. Underwood’s willingness to face down his own racist feelings and support what he knows, in the end, is right.

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