Mockingbird in Everyday Lives
“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.”(119) In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Atticus uses this quote to teach that it is wrong to harm innocent creatures.
The life lesson that Atticus teaches us is brought up in several different cases throughout the book. For example, when Atticus says “Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much Cal.”(315) This example proves that Tom, much like other harmless creatures, had done nothing but help others and in the end they suffered for it. Some mockingbird like people are disparaged or not cared for until they are gone and people grasp how much they actually needed them.
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Many of the townsfolk viewed him as an evil or mean spirited person. An instance of him being a mockingbird is first seen when Boo begins to put things in the hole of a tree for Jem and Scout to have until it gets filled with cement (44-45). Another example is when Boo puts a blanket around Scout while she is watching the fire at Miss Maudie's house and Scout does not even notice (94-95). The last and biggest act takes place while Scout and Jem are walking home from the play and they are attacked by Bob Ewell. Then to save them Boo stabs Bob