Imagine yourself in a small town in Alabama where you, your sibling, and your friend Dill spend your summer days using your imagination to fulfill your boredom. During this you decided to act out one of the scary myths of the neighborhood, your neighbor Boo Radly in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Boo Radley has been known to have stabbed his father with scissors and has hidden in his home. His father, Nathan Radley will not allow him out. Boo Radley is presented as a mockingbird because most of the things people say about him are wrong. The children can shoot any other kind of bird they want, but they can not shoot a mockingbird because mockingbirds bring music and nothing else. In this novel Boo Radley is represented by the symbol of a mockingbird because all he does is help the children when they need it, and does not bring any harm. …show more content…
They are harmless to everyone and things around them. Boo Radly is identified by a mockingbird because stating it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, which then means you will be destroying innocence. With that, killing a mockingbird is like killing innocence. Boo Radley’s conscience is pure and innocent. That is why some could say he is defenseless. Even though Boo Radly in the beginning was labeled as this scary myth of the neighborhood, he turns out to be the total opposite. Atticus explains, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy… That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (119). You do not harm people that haven’t harmed you or done anything destructive to you. Either way no one deserves to be killed over something they did not