Atticus's Bravery

        In chapter 15, Jem and Scout find out that Dill is able to stay in Maycomb with them. One evening, some men came to Atticus's house to talk about the fact that they were moving tom Robinson to the county jail. They were talking about how Tom could be attacked or killed in the county jail by the people in Sarum. At 10pm that night, Atticus went into town. Jem decided to go to town to check on Atticus, and Scout and Dill tagged along. When they got there they saw that Atticus was sitting at the front of the county jail. A little while after, some cars came, and men started piling out of the car and went up to Atticus. Atticus never knew that Jem, Scout, and Dill were there, since they were spying on him from further away. The men wanted to harm Tom Robinson, and Atticus knew this. Atticus planed on talking to the men, and not using violence to solve this. He planned on stopping the group of men by reasoning with them. 
           I think that it was very brave of Atticus to show up at the jail to protect Tom using only his words. Even though this didn't work out for Atticus and he had to be saved by his daughter, it was brave of him to do this. It would have been easy for him to show up with a shotgun or a weapon for defense, but instead he showed up with a newspaper to read. It would have been even easier for Atticus to bring a shotgun considering that he is the deadliest shot in Maycomb. Atticus once told his children that violence solves nothing. He was brave to have no intentions of fighting back to these men, because he knew that if he did, he would be a hypocrite to his children. It would have been easy for Atticus to betray his word, since he thought his children wouldn't be there and wouldn't see what was going to happen. Atticus's actions also tell us that he hold himself to a high moral standard, because even though he could have used violence and betrayed what he had said to his children, he didn't. He set himself to high standard and he stayed true to his word even though it was a very hard thing to do. In conclusion, Atticus was a very brave man to not use violence when fighting off a group of men who wanted to harm a man.