Examples Of Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

How the mockingbird is to kill a mockingbird represents innocence.
Is it possible for a person to be guilty until proven innocent? In the book to kill a mockingbird, a woman named Scout retells her life during the great depression alongside her brother Jem and her father Atticus in a town called Maycomb. During the book, Atticus defends a black character named Tom Robinson that was accused of raping a young girl named mayella ewell and was convicted guilty even though it was shown that it would have been impossible but, due to the racism of the people in Maycomb, he was still convicted guilty. The book has many themes about racism, prejudice and innocence; one symbol that reinforces the themes is the mockingbird. The mockingbird represents

After all, she said she needed help to “bust up [a] chifferobe” (246) for kindling and called tom to do it which meant that he had good intentions to help mayella and also due to tom being crippled as a child and having his left arm shortened as Mayella had a black eye on her right side of her face which would have been impossible due to tom being right-handed. Atticus also points out how mayella’s father, bob ewell was left-handed indicating that he may have beaten mayella due to his alcoholism and him not caring much about his children and how they may have lured tom Robinson into a trap since they were racist and didn't approve of black people due to their skin colour not matching with theirs. Even with all the evidence, the jury still convicted him guilty due to prejudice and was sentenced to death due to the people of maycomb's discrimination against black people thinking they would do anything bad to other people when they do not. While in prison, Tom tries to escape but was instead the guards at the prison shot tom 17 times instead of trying to catch him which the newspapers described as “the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children” (244) as the slaughter of songbirds by children are what the

While Scout and Jem are walking back home from the party, they are attacked by an unidentified man with a knife later identified as bob ewell. From this, jem had his arm broken in the fight and scout’s ham costume being torn up. After the incident, it was shown that scout and jem were saved by a person named boo radley, which scout and jem were interested in him due to him not leaving his house for years and nobody seeing except for his father nathan radley. Scout and Jem tried to see and communicate with Boo but all of their attempts failed. Boo also tried giving them gifts from the a knothole in a tree near the radley household as a way to interact with them with items such as gum, rare coins, a white gold watch,and figures that looked very similarly to jem and scout; scout and jem also tried to communicate with him but, nathan radley plugged the knothole up with cement. It was demonstrated that boo radley saved jem and scout by fighting bob ewell scout’s ham costume also was torn up in a way that meant bob ewell was trying to kill scout and jem as revenge against atticus for making his reputation diminish and everyone's trust in him gone. The way boo radley saved scout and jem was that he took bobs knife from him and stabbed bob with it. However, sheriff tate manages to convince atticus that he tripped and fell on his