Comparing The True Mockbirds Of To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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The True Mockingbirds of To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee (1960), Scout and Jem are both growing up in Maycomb town where they experience firsthand the wrongful principles of the people they are influenced by. They are both raised by their dedicated father, Atticus Finch, however, they come to develop their own differing perspective on the visible blind spots of mankind. The mockingbird in the novel is used as a symbol for innocence in the perspective of Jem and Scout. In Boo Radley’s perspective the mockingbird is seen as the symbol for all things beautiful and not able to do harm. As Scout and Jem are raised in a town full of racism and ignorance they are beginning to realize that the world is not a garden