To Kill a Mockingbird In To Kill a Mockingbird a novel of Harper Lee there were characters who said it was a bad to kill a mockingbird, in this case Tom Robinson is the mockingbird. This novel is about how a man named Atticus Finch was assigned a case to defend a black man whose name is Tom Robinson. He is being accused of raping and beaten a women. Tom is innocent but is proven guilty by the jury. Tom is later then killed trying to escape. Atticus children Jem and Scout don’t see him as an interesting father so they turn to a man named Boo Radley with their friend Dill. They believe he is some type of monster so they spend most of their childhood trying to make Boo Radley come out. The mockingbird is Tom Robinson. Ms. Maudie told Scout that,