Mrs. Dubose is a prime example of this "quiet courage" Atticus tries to teach Scout and Jem. She does her best to break herself of the morphine habit before she dies. This takes great mental strength to focus on Jem reading to her rather than succumbing to the physical dependence on morphine. When she died, she was completely free of morphine.
Atticus is another example of this. When Scout comes home from her first day of school, she doesn't want to go back because Miss Caroline yelled at her and made her look like a fool in front of the whole class. Rather than forcing Scout to go back to school or telling her she has to go because he is the parent and says so, Atticus reasons with Scout, teaches her what a compromise is, and allows her to make the decision whether or not to go back to school. By dealing with his children this way, Atticus doesn't have to physically punish them--Jem says, when he goes back for his pants at the Radley place that Atticus hasn't even whipped him and he isn't going to start now.
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