Almost every main character in this story can be a "mockingbird" from parents to young children. So, mockingbirds must be important, right? But why? Shocking as it sounds, “It is a sin to kill a mockingbird" and refers to the childhood innocence lost during the course of what these children discover concerning what evil does in a man. Everyone reaches a point in their childhood where they lose their innocence, but sometimes that loss of innocence is forced upon them too soon, whether someone intentionally or accidentally takes it away. within this paper let look at Boo and Scout that are living examples of “mockingbirds”, while Tom Robinson pleas for him innocence. The children in this book start out very innocent, but by the end, they no longer have that innocence, and once it's lost, it's …show more content…
Boo saved Scout and Jem, but he also killed Bob Ewell in the process. Atticus, Jem and Scouts father, asked the sheriff what really happened, but the sheriff insisted that Boo didn't do anything. Scout understood it and said that it'd be like shooting a mockingbird, because Boo only sought to protect those children and having him arrested would be a sin. Boo Radley was displayed as an innocent man who was wrongly incarcerated by his father after a childish prank he played on him, but his father did not think of it as a childish prank. Boo’s innocence can be seen when he leaves gifts for Jem and Scout in the tree knot hole. Amazingly, this was his only form of contact he has with the outside world until his father closed it up with concrete. Boo or also known as, Arthur Radley, is actually a very shy character who is often misjudged by society including Jem and Scout. As the story goes on, we find Scout is beginning to realize Boo's situation when Scout tells Atticus that exposing Boo would be "sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't