To Kill A Mockingbird Evil Quotes

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Quoted by Atticus Finch and Miss Maudie. When Jem gets his first gun Atticus tells him that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, and when Jem asks Miss Maudie about it she agrees and explains Atticus’s theory. This quote is the key metaphor of this novel, while it’s in the title. Notice that this quote will be used multiple times in this book.The main idea of “Mockingbirds” is good, whereas innocent people are destroyed by evil. There were a couple incidents when innocence was defaced by evil that came in different

Scout and Jem were walking home from a school play when Jem hears someone walking behind them, they were attacked by Bob Ewell. Coming to their rescue was Boo Radley, who carried unconscious Jem to safety. Heck Tate tells Atticus that he found Bob Ewell dead with a knife in his ribs. Atticus claims that he must’ve slipped and fell on it but then they turn to Boo Radley who obviously killed Bod to save the kids. Atticus says it was self-defense but he knows who’s story would really win. So Heck Tate insists that it’s better to say that Bob fell on his knife in the whole incident. Tom Robinson died for no reason, he says, and now the man responsible is dead: “Let the dead bury the dead.” This is one of the main examples of the metaphor “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Bringing Boo Radley into this would be like killing a mockingbird because all he does is leaves Jem and Scout presents, covers Scout with a blanket during the fire, and then saves the children from Bob

Scout’s coming of age moment starts in chapter 3 when she is complaining about her teacher Miss Caroline and Atticus tells her that “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”. She does not understand her father until much later in the book when she walks Boo Radley home and stands on his porch. She then understands her father’s lesson, claiming that “standing on the radley porch was enough”. Then there is Jem her older brother that comes of age and matures through the book too. He grows in knowledge and bravery. For example Scout spots a rolly-polly and goes to kill it but Jem stops her, asking her what has the rolly-polly done to you? In the bravery, he protects Scout in the attack of Bob Ewell. Last character that I thought came of age throughout the book was Boo Radley. He slowy develops in the book then all at once, first being the neighborhood boogie man, then leaving small presents for the kids and putting a blanket on Scout. He true coming of age moment was when he came out of his comfort zone and saved the kids lives. These were the characters I picked that came of age in this