Mrs. Dubose

The reason that Mrs. Dubose is recognized by Atticus is that she lets everyone know what and why she believes in. Atticus also admires her “courage” for even though she knows she can’t win, she still believes in what she believes in. Although she would never call Atticus a “negro lover”, Atticus respected that she was not like everyone else in just going with the crowd and believing. She backs up her answers.

“She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe...son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I'd have made you go read to her. I wanted you to see something about her, I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that real courage is a man with a gun in his hand.”

Atticus does not express his beliefs as much as she did. Mrs. Dubose was not in the social hierarchy of the town so she had to deal with the fact that she was not technically “in” in the town of Maycomb. When Atticus says “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that real courage is a man with a gun in his hand” he wants to also tell them why he does not hunt like all of the other men but reads instead.