Why does atticus believe mrs.dubose has courage?

Answer 1

Atticus felt Mrs Dubose was brave because he knew about her morphine addiction. Mrs Dubose was on morphine because she was dying and Atticus says to Jem that she is a brave courageous lady. Atticus also explains to Jem that she carried on taking morphine even when she was still going to die which links to Atticus in the Tom Robinson case because he knows he can't help Tom in the court but he still decided to defend him.

Answer 2

Because she defends her father who is defending a black man from a lynch mob. Her father is failing to dissuade the mob. Then she speaks to one of the leaders asking him how his son is doing and to please tell him hello for her. Realizing they are individuals with children, wives, lives in their small town their mob mentality dissipates and they go home.

Answer 3

Atticus said that Mrs.Dubose was addicted to morphine. When Jem destroyed her bushes, she leapt at the chance for a distraction. Atticus said that she was determined to die not addicted to morphine. However, as a result of this horrible addiction, she constantly had fits when Jem was reading to her. Yet, she persevered and, sure enough, she died a painful death but not addicted to morphine.
Atticus believes that Mrs. Dubose diplays great courage because she is fighting a morphine addiction. Though she knos that she will not live, she is willingto go through much pain and withdrawl symptoms in order to die clean and freely.
Because Mrs. Dubose was battling her addiction to drugs and she was determined to be clean before she died.
Atticus believes that courage doesn't have to be a man with a gun, but it is one overcoming difficult obstacles or paths in their life. For Mrs. Dubose, as Jem was forced to read to her in return for destroying her plants, she was slowly dying of cancer. She was also addicted to morphine at the time, and she wanted to die free of the addiction to morphine. When Atticus heard of this, he told Jem and Scout, and claimed that it took Mrs. Dubose a lot of bravery to not complain about the pain she was suffering from withrdrawal from morphine and battling her cancer without any pain relievers. She attempted to overcome this difficult obstacle in her life, and died sucessful in doing so.
Mrs. Dubose wanted to quit her addiction, and every day reduced the amount of medicine she took. It isn't courageous to shoot a gun, but it is courageous to know you are going to die and complete your goal.
she has the courage to defeat her addiction to morphine knowing she will die soon.
atticus called Mrs dubose a great lady because she was on drugs but tried very hard to get rid of them "even though she was licked before even tried"so even though she was going to die anyway she still got rid of drugs to dry free which is one of atticus' lessons through out the novel
Because she overcame her addiction of morphine
She was a drug addict. She was a model of courage because she gave it up with her own will power. His children thought that a father who could shoot a gun would be 'cool' but its not nearly as difficult shooting a gun, than it is to have the willpower to quit using drugs.
he is just saying that it is hard to do what she is doing(getting clean of her addiction) so she can die free....he says this takes and makes you more courageous than just having a gun in your hand thinking you can do anything.

Answer 4

Atticus believes Mrs. Dubose has courage because she fights her morphine addiction in order to die free from it, despite knowing it's a difficult battle. He admires her determination and strength to overcome her personal demons, showing that courage comes in many forms.