“mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy” (Lee 93). One of the examples of good vs evil in this story is Tom Robinson’s court case with Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson is a black man named who is accused for a crime of raping and beating Mayella Ewell even though he just helped her with household chores. In the book Tom was seen as a bad figure for most of the book even though he was just a caring, harmless person. You can say many mockingbirds die in today’s reality, but it is the innocent that suffer the most often.
Living in Maycomb County being African American isn’t an easy task during the 1950’s. Tom Robinson is married to Helen Robinson and is a father to 3 children. Tom and his family face a lot of racial profiling
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Jem and Scout were walking home from the halloween party when Jem said “Hush a minute, Scout” (Lee 263) because he he heard something. After walking for a bit longer and hearing weird noises off and on they hear someone running at them, that someone was Bob Ewell and Jem yells “Run, Scout! Run! Run!” (Lee 265) once he said that he felt chicken wire wrap around him then he fell and rolled away then got up and ran as fast as he could towards Jems scream until he ran into someone that wrapped their arms around him. Once he almost squeezed all the air out of him he was flung back onto the ground. When Scout heard a man breathing hard a coughing hard he went towards the person and asked who he was and there was no answer. That person that caused Bob Ewell to go flying back onto the ground was Boo Radley. No one ever sees boo he just lives in his parents house, everyone thinks of him as a monster that wants to kill or hurt everyone even though he is a heart warming normal person.
The book, To Kill a Mockingbird, has the theme of there is always good in bad and bad in good, its shown in the paragraphs above. The Finch family goes through a lot throughout the book, the theme of good vs evil was shown not only by Boo Radley and Tom Robinson but by Atticus himself. These 3 people all stand up for what they believe in and what is truly right