"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but 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's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (Lee Pg 10). One important theme in To Kill a Mockingbird is the good and evil in human dignity. Many characters in the book depict this theme, but the character Tom Robinson best depicts one who gets criticized because of the racist and evil outcome. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about growing up in a small southern town in the 1930s.
The most important theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is essentially good and evil. The perspective of the book is from of childhood, in which they assume that people are good because they have never seen evil. In an adult perspective, it would be in a mature and understanding perspective. In the time period of three years the book goes from innocence to experience."I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it-seems that only children weep” (Lee Pg 285). This shows how people try to do well, but sometimes evil can prevail. In the book the evil was the poor judgment that Tom Robinson was guilty.
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Atticus understands that, people must have both good and bad traits. He understands to appreciate the good aspect and understand the bad qualities by treating others with sympathy and trying to see life in their footsteps. He teaches an ultimate lesson to Jem and Scout to show them that it is possible to live with moral sense without losing hope or becoming doubtful. Scout at last sees Boo Radley as a human being and is able to view the world from his perspective. “No son, it’s not right” (Lee Pg 284). Jem realizes that the justice system and the society treat human beings in a horrible