The action of killing a mockingbird embodies the idea of ones’s innocence being compromised and succumbing to evil.To kill a mockingbird is not only a sin, but also when referring to a person it symbolizes their loss of innocence which is shown in the novel by Harper Lee. This symbol demonstrates the theme of one’s purity being lost due to the exposure of evil such as injustice and prejudice. Mockingbirds are friendly, harmless birds, when killing one someone has harmed something that was innocent. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the mockingbird can be Tom Robinson and Scout. Both the characters are innocent and pure in the beginning of the novel, but as the novel progresses the characters are “infected” due to exposure of injustice and prejudice. Also the
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When we think of a child we immediately connect the word innocence with it. By the time we reach the end of the novel, the tone of the narrators seems to be developing into a mature manner, like one’s of an adult. We realize that she is becoming more mature because she expresses the fact that she finally understands her father’s lessons and the reason people act the way they do. So when one becomes similar to an adult they are no longer faultless. Along the list of literary devices, figurative language also helps us understand the major theme of losing innocence and growing up. For example, as Scout passes by the Radley house she tells the reader that she feels a “twinge of remorse”. This is a figure of speech that tells us she feels deep regret and guilt for a wrong she has committed. Remorse is not a feeling a child can comprehend, hence displaying to the reader that Scout is growing up and maturing and when one matures one automatically loses their innocence because growing means to learn about the world and the world is evil therefore exposing a soul full of light to a little bit of
When we think of a child we immediately connect the word innocence with it. By the time we reach the end of the novel, the tone of the narrators seems to be developing into a mature manner, like one’s of an adult. We realize that she is becoming more mature because she expresses the fact that she finally understands her father’s lessons and the reason people act the way they do. So when one becomes similar to an adult they are no longer faultless. Along the list of literary devices, figurative language also helps us understand the major theme of losing innocence and growing up. For example, as Scout passes by the Radley house she tells the reader that she feels a “twinge of remorse”. This is a figure of speech that tells us she feels deep regret and guilt for a wrong she has committed. Remorse is not a feeling a child can comprehend, hence displaying to the reader that Scout is growing up and maturing and when one matures one automatically loses their innocence because growing means to learn about the world and the world is evil therefore exposing a soul full of light to a little bit of