miss duboues

when jem threw that rock and said atticus is a real gentelman, just like me.

i originally though that he was going to try and be like his father a bit more, but now i think that Jem’s view on atticus at that time changed. i believe that know Jem could have seen his dad in a different light. before  atticus seem like his old man who is too tired for everything like foot ball or even to teach him to shoot, all he does is read the paper and books. Jem still held Atticus high but he didn’t credit him any manliness. now Jem has seen Atticus shoot a dog he thinks that he is brave and manlier than before.

atticus probably relises this so he thinks up a way to show him real bravery and to teach him how to act. that real bravery come in the form of miss duboues. she may have very different view to atticus, and atticus knows she isn’t a good role mood but he know her conviction to carry on against all the odd is what he wanted to show him.

when jem starts to read to miss duboues he hates it and keeps up his hostility against her.“my sister an’t dirty and i an’t scared of you.” as the weeks go on the time they spend gets longer and long. jem hates it more and more. finally miss duboues dies a little while after jem has finish reading with her. atticus reveles that she is an morphine addict and that her reading session with him were helping her get better. jem gets very annoyed mis  duboues send jem a box that contains one of the flowers miss duboues likes jem burns it and storm of but atticus tell that eventhough they had split points of veiws she was the bravest person he knows.

i think that atticus let him go to the readings to show him how he should act in life and what a real gentleman acts. he wanted to show him that she had conviction know matter how cruel she seemed.“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.”