Tom Robinson Trial

In the Novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus appoints that Scout and Jem can “shoot all the blue jays [they] want” but it was a “sin to kill a mockingbird.” Harper Lee pinpoints in the novel the depth symbolizing to kill a mockingbird inferred on the innocence of society and citizens of Maycomb. Maudie Atkinson indicates to Jem and Scout that mockingbirds only do one thing and that is “making music, [and] sing their hearts out.” Mockingbirds are portrayed throughout two distinguished characters, and how society’s involvement of “sin” purged the innocence with the cringe of justice.
The intriguing motif of the mockingbird takes a prose of morals and impression through different undertones. Lee brings to understanding of the human behavior in

Tom Robinson, twenty years of age, a black man who had violated the “honored code of society” breaking the moral standards of the era of discrimination with Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson is accused because his kissed a white woman, but Mayella had a daily reminder that “she tempted a negro.” Tom had done nothing wrong to harm Mayella Ewell, Tom is innocent, and the trial was fit to be unfair because Tom is a black man. As the story takes place in the time of the 1950’s, many black Americans had no saying in what is deemed right from wrong. Black Americans of the 1950’s had no song to sing, for the Americans had standardized the beliefs and had set morality of stereotyping by the color of skin. Since the court had dictated Tom to be guilty; Tom lost all hope only escaping his imprisonment, and getting shot seventeen times to

Boo Radley inclosed in his home had led to speculations of curiosity to Scout and Jem, which they try to pry out Boo from being silenced. As a protector of Scout and Jem, Boo steps away from the darkness to save Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell. Lee creates the vanity in Boo’s appearance as valiant, redemption in the understanding of one's true self. Sheriff Tate dicates sin on Boo’s actions of killing Mr. Ewell in which Boo has “dragg[ed]’ him[self] with his shy ways into the limelight” only to save a soul of innocence “that’s a sin.” Boo’s actions had defined his myth in being a man of sin, and he had led himself back into his enclosure away in the