“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Harper lee uses the characters in this story to explore civil rights and racism in the south during the 1930s. The main character of the story is Scout Finch, and story is told through the eyes of a child because they see the world differently than an adult. The innocence of a child during such a hateful time period tells the story about the rape of a young woman and the wrongful prosecution of a black man. “It's bad enough in life to do without something you want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want them to have.” Truman Capote also uses a child to tell this story. The narrator, Buddy, looks
