To Kill A Mockingbird Innocence Quotes

To Kill a Mockingbird

When you think of innocence do you think of a mockingbird? Well, in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee foreshadows the loss of innocence through her symbolic significance of the Snowman, Mad dog, and the Mockingbird itself.

First, Harper Lee uses the Snowman to foreshadow the loss of innocence. The Snowman was built out of mud and snow by two innocent children, Jem and Scout. Scout says, “Jem I ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman” (89). This quote says scout has never heard of a black snowman because all snowmen are supposed to be white. This quote shows innocence because the two kids don’t realize saying this is racist. This connects to the trial because all of the jury was racist which means Tom Robinson

Later on in the story at the trial Atticus was giving his closing argument to try and get the Jury to see Tom Robinson as an innocent man and Bob Ewell as the one who has been doing it all along. Atticus explains, “The state has not provided one Iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place.” (271). This is said during Atticus’s closing argument. He is realistically pointing his argument towards the one Cunningham on the Jury who trusts Atticus. He managed to make a small step in the right direction of getting the Jury to see Tom as innocent. He did this by giving them enough to think about to keep them out of the court for 4 hours even though they still saw him as guilty. This quote proves innocence is killed because charging Tom with this is going to kill his own innocence as well as many others. Both of these quotes tie together because Atticus is stopping and trying to stop Racism from ruining

The Mockingbird in Maycomb is “sacred” because it doesn’t destroy anything it just sings. Many people say it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird. In other words the Mockingbird is innocence itself because it does nothing. Near the end of the book when Atticus, Scout and the sheriff were talking about the attack and how it wouldn’t be right to put Boo Radley on trial in front of everyone she thinks of the Mockingbird. Scout says, “Well it’d be sort of like shootin a Mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” (370). She is saying this to Atticus after the sheriff was trying to hide the fact that Boo Radley is actually the one who killed Bob Ewell and saved Atticus’s children. Atticus thinks and then realized that it was actually Boo and not Jem. This quote proves innocence because Scout is saying Jem didn’t kill Bob, and putting Boo on trial would harm him because everyone thinks he is a monster and seeing him would cause everyone to ask him questions. Also proving he killed Bob would have many people coming to his house to bother him and he might be sent to jail. Earlier in the story at the trial Atticus had just finished his closing argument and was heading back to his table. Jem recites Atticus to Scout, “In the name of God believe him” (275). This is Atticus’s last attempt to get the Jury to prove Tom innocent and Bob guilty. This proves innocence because Atticus is trying to save innocence in the trial from all of those