Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are many “mockingbirds” that are extremely important to the story. During this novel Scout and Jem are introduced to many new things, such as, prejudice and destruction. Atticus teaches the kids his morals throughout the story, which helps them grow mentally as they go through the chaos of the little town of Maycomb. The author uses the symbol of a mockingbird throughout the story through many characters, but you do not realize what it means until the end. “Well, it’d be sort of like shootin a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” At this point in the novel Mr. Arthur “Boo” Radley just saved the kids lives and killed Mr. Bob Ewell to do so. Boo is a very innocent man, just like a mockingbird. He is not a very social man, but is an extremely kind-hearted person. So Atticus and Mr. Tate decided that “Bob fell on his knife.” so that Boo would not be put on trial …show more content…
“But you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.” Mr. Raymond talks to Dill and Scout about how he pretends to be a drunk, just so people would have an explanation of why he lives the way he does. Mr. Raymond is a “mockingbird”, he is an innocent man living the way he wants to live, but citizens of Maycomb are the evil and could never understand why he is living like that. This can relate to Boo Radley’s situation. He does not like to come outside, he is just not a social man. Some people cannot understand that, he was destroyed as a child. So that affected him later in his life but he rose above it and is now a very kind-hearted and innocent man. Tom Robinson said “felt right sorry for her.” Tom was an innocent man who was just trying to help Mayella, even though he knew that it was dangerous for him. Tom was blamed for something he did not do and was later shot to death. Tom was a mockingbird, innocence destroyed by