RMockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"( Lee, 93). The mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird represents many forms of innocence. Tom Robinson has been discriminated by the color of his skin and has not hurt anyone. Both Boo Radley and Scout Finch have been pounded by the evils of this world and see people for who they are. The mockingbird symbolizes Boo's, Tom's, and Scout's innocence. This can be a convicted man who's done no wrong, a man burdened by evil things, and a child who does not yet know the ways of this world. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, three people that represent a mockingbird are Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and Scout Finch. …show more content…
He was charged with raping a white women when in reality he had been tempted by that same women. Tom was an innocent man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In their society a white man's words weighed ten times more heavily than a black man's. Much like the mockingbird, Tom was "a dead man as soon as she opened her mouth to scream"( Lee, 245). When a hunter draws his gun to shot a mocking bird the only thing that can get in his way is someone who is better than that. Atticus was much wiser than anyone in the courtroom and tried to do something about one more kill. Tom was also persecuted and mocked for the color of his skin even though he had done no wrong. Mr Ewell, the father of Tom's tempter, called Tom nasty and inappropriate