The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is about Atticus and his two children, Jem and Scout. They live in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. This book has very many themes, with one of the most important being courage. Throughout the story the character of Atticus proves himself to be a very courageous and moral person. Atticus has many acts of courage in this novel. One of Atticus’s most courageous acts is when he helps to defend Tom Robinson in trial against Bob Ewell. "Which, gentlemen, we know is in itself a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin, a lie I do not have to point out to you. You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men