Compare And Contrast Boo Radley And To Kill A Mockingbird

After Scout Finch is given her first rifle, her father Atticus said to his daughter, “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(119 ) In the story To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, mockingbirds are mentioned many times throughout the story. They are spoken of because many characters in the novel are compared to mockingbirds because of the way in which they are treated by the community of Maycomb. Three of the characters in the book who are compared to mockingbirds are Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Tim Johnson.

Firstly, one character who is a mockingbird is Boo Radley. Boo is a character who in the book is not understood by the people of Maycomb. Boo stays in the Radley Place for the whole story until he saves Jem and Scout’s lives. After Mr. Tate leaves the Finch’s house Scout tells her father this, “‘Yes sir, I understand,’ I reassured him. ‘Mr. Tate was right.’ Atticus disengaged himself and looked at me. “What do you mean?” ‘Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?’”(370) Scout says that Mr. Tate is right because Mr. Tate said that the Maycomb community should leave Boo alone. Scout compares this to killing a mockingbird because Boo wants to

They both were killed for doing nothing at all. After Tim Johnson walked down the street near the Finch’s house this scene occured, “The rifle cracked. Tim Johnson leaped, flopped over and crumpled on the sidewalk in a brown-and-white heap. He didn’t know what had hit him.”(127) Tim Johnson had does been walked up the road to get where he needed to get to. He hadn’t harmed anyone or done anything to hurt the people. He had done nothing at all. Beside that fact he was shot for looking like a mad dog even though he only fit a small part of the description. Tim Johnson was like a mockingbird because he was killed for doing nothing wrong to