In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the author Harper Lee shows how it's a sin to kill a mockingbird throughout the story by proving to the reader that Tom Robison and Boo Radley were the “mockingbirds” of the story so the reader can see the role of innocence.
It's a sin to kill a mockingbird. “Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit em but, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (108) Atticus tells Scout this when she and Jem get air rifles for Christmas from Uncle Jack as gifts. Atticus wouldn't teach the kids how to shoot so Uncle Jack will have to teach them to use the air rifles. Since Atticus was never going to teach the kids how to use the air rifles he does teach Scout that it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. Scout says she has never heard Atticus say it's a sin to do something so she knows it must be important. Later that day as Scout is over at Miss Maudies she tells her what Atticus said to her earlier about how it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. Miss Maudie says that Atticus is right; she says all mockingbirds do is make music. Even though Scout didn't learn how to shoot from Atticus she learned it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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“Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.” (276) After Scout reads the Maycomb Tribune that Mr Underwood published after Tom was killed in prison she notices that the point Mr Underwood was trying to explain was that it was a sin to kill cripples. Scout thinks about what Mr Underwood published in the Maycomb Tribune and it finally hits her that she realizes that no matter how good of a lawyer Atticus was and no matter how much evidence there was to prove that Tom was innocent. Tom had no chance of winning the case because it was a white woman accusing a black man of