To Kill A Mockingbird Title Analysis

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To Kill A Mockingbird By: Harper Lee. The book is about the main character, Scout’s view on what happened in Maycomb county over the two years. Within those two years, she describes the advents through a lot of details, such as her father’s court case and the deaths followed within, before, and after the case. She talks about her life with her neighbors, her brother, father, and Calpurnia. She goes into more such details on her next-door neighbor Arthur Radley. Is the title of this book, To Kill A Mockingbird fitted to be the title with the advents in the book? Yes, it is fitted to go along with the book, reason is with what happened in chapter 30 and 31 with Mr. Radley, along with when Scout and Jim were talking that there is only one type …show more content…

Mr. Radley is a great example due to the fact he has only come out of his once within the whole entire book just to help Scout and Jem when they were almost killed, “Summer, and he watched his children’s heartbreak. Autumn again, and Boo’s children needed him.” (page 374, chapter 31) When nobody truly knew what was going on Author, knew they were in danger and rescued them. Miss Maudie had mentioned to Scout in chapter 10, that Mockingbirds don’t do anything bad, they simply make music for people for people, they do nothing wrong at all. Atticus told Jem never to shoot at a Mockingbird for that reason, so Mr. Radley can be interpreted metaphorically as a Mockingbird. In chapter 29, after Scout told Atticus and everyone what happened, Mr. Heck Tate, tried to cover up the fact Mr. Radley had killed Bob Ewell. For the reason he saw Author Radley as a Mockingbird, “...taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight--to me, that’s a sin.” (page 370) Mr. Heck Tate is referring to Mr. Radley, they say it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird, but what if a person is a Mockingbird and you put him in front of everyone for something that he did out of saving kids? Wouldn’t that be considered as a sin to? In chapter 7, when Jem went back