In the story "First Steps," which event gives Maria courage to volunteer to be the first person to set foot on the new planet? Receiving a lecture from Captain Curran about courage watching Lily show fear for the first time thinking back to her parents' hard work to find a home taking deep breaths to calm down and think

I think the answer is receiving a lecture from Captain Curran about courage, I am so sorry if I am wrong!

thinking back to her parents' hard work to find a home

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showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).