Courage To Confront Prejudice
...(Martin Luther King, Jr.). Some of the nation's greatest fictional characters epitomize this passage in their everyday lives. Jem, Scout and Huck not only have the courage to affect our nation, but they do so as children. They, along with countless others, show their courage through the actions of their hearts. According to them, courage is not the absence of fear, but the willpower to face it. These characters, from the novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, and To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, exemplify the positive importance to have the courage to confront all kinds of prejudice in society, family, and oneself.
Society proves to be a big faction in the lives of the characters of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird. The characters are constantly obliged to be like the others of their communities, otherwise they have a chance of being rejected because they are simply different. However, they decide to stand up for what is right, and they act on the parts of those who really are different and cannot defend themselves on their own. However, prejudice is not only exposed to African Americans in the novels as many people believe. It is also made known to the people of different class or social ranks. In To Kill a Mockingbird, many people prove their own prejudice towards not only the Ewell's, but also to the Cunningham's, and the same thing happens in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, where society tends to spurn Pap. Although, most of the time, the Ewell's deserve the prejudice that has come upon them, they sometimes do have the right to prove themselves to be the good, fine people that anyone can be. Pap is characterized as the drunken, no-good father of Huckleberry, but no one really gets a chance to find out what real potential he might have as a fine individual (Twain 1251-1253). The Cunningham's, nonetheless, are...
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