Scout is somehow able to stop the men at the jail from lynching Tom Robinson in Chapter 15. The theme that links to this event is "Moral Courage". Mr. Walter Cunningham shows moral courage when he's at the jail. When he is about to go and lynch Tom with his mob friends, Atticus's kids show up and he is knocked back into his senses. Scout eagerly talks to him, and even mentions his son, who goes to school with her. I believe that she reminded him of his own son, because his morals kicked in, and he left and convinced the others to leave and not come back. Walter could have gone in right then and lynched Tom, but Scout's innocence made him wary and overall stopped the situation before it could happen. He had the courage to do what he thought was right, even when he previously thought something else was the right thing to do.
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