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Boo Radley's A Sin To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

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It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. Why? Well mockingbirds are harmless animals and all they do is sing there little hearts out. Mockingbirds are mentioned several times in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. In the book Scout says that if you hurt there neighbor Boo Radley it's “sort of like killing a mockingbird” because Boo Radley does no harm to anyone they never saw him. Mockingbirds are innocent and Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Charles Harris all three represent a mockingbird in there own way.

Boo Radley represents a Mockingbird in the story for many reasons. Everyone sees Boo as a monster, but in reality he’s not a monster at all. The reader might ask why do you say that. “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained--if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.”-Jem. Sounds like a monster, right? Although at the beginning of the story Boo Radley’s existence seems imaginary throughout the story his existence because more real and more visible. How? Well throughout the story …show more content…

Dill is a young boy that is talkative and very intelligent who quickly became the Finch children’s chief playmate. Although it takes Dill longer to mature than it does Jem and Scout, he is in a way innocent. Although it takes Dill longer to mature, they’re still all three really good friends. They do stupid things together, though. Dill plays childish games such as daring Jem to touch the Radley house. He also created the “Boo Radley” game. How does Dill represent a mockingbird though? It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird in the book because they’re innocent. And Dill is an innocent child. So he represents a mockingbird in this

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