The book uses mockingbirds as a symbol to show some people as innocent just like mockingbirds. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee makes three main “mockingbirds”. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...but sing their heart out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(pg.90) Mockingbirds only really sing, that’s why they’re innocent. Their names are, Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell, and Arthur Radley.
Arthur Radley is the first mockingbird to ever be mentioned. He’s a man everyone is afraid of, the man who stabbed his dad in the leg, a man who snuck to look through women’s windows “In the eyes of Jem Finch, Boo was half man, half monster, all terror.”(pg,16) The reason he’s a mockingbird is because he is seen as this big bad threatening figure, when really he’s a sweet old man that doesn’t know any better. He’s not only innocent in the mind, but he’s also innocent of the gossip spread around about him. There is very little gossip in Maycomb that is actually true about him, and even then it’s like these people are twisting his actions around. They don’t know anything about him, not really. All they know is that he hasn’t been out of the house for a long, long while. …show more content…
The man who supposedly raped Mayella Ewell. “In the secrets of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella opened her mouth and screamed.”(pg.204) This quote just shows the town’s prejudice and blatant racism. They didn’t care if there was an unfair trial, all they knew was that a white woman accused a black man of rape. Tom Robinson was a mockingbird because he was innocent of the crimes he was convicted of. “She said she’d never kissed a grown man before an’ she might as well kiss me.”(pg.197) Tom had never wanted to even touch Mayella, she was the one that came on to
Arthur Radley is the first mockingbird to ever be mentioned. He’s a man everyone is afraid of, the man who stabbed his dad in the leg, a man who snuck to look through women’s windows “In the eyes of Jem Finch, Boo was half man, half monster, all terror.”(pg,16) The reason he’s a mockingbird is because he is seen as this big bad threatening figure, when really he’s a sweet old man that doesn’t know any better. He’s not only innocent in the mind, but he’s also innocent of the gossip spread around about him. There is very little gossip in Maycomb that is actually true about him, and even then it’s like these people are twisting his actions around. They don’t know anything about him, not really. All they know is that he hasn’t been out of the house for a long, long while. …show more content…
The man who supposedly raped Mayella Ewell. “In the secrets of men’s hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella opened her mouth and screamed.”(pg.204) This quote just shows the town’s prejudice and blatant racism. They didn’t care if there was an unfair trial, all they knew was that a white woman accused a black man of rape. Tom Robinson was a mockingbird because he was innocent of the crimes he was convicted of. “She said she’d never kissed a grown man before an’ she might as well kiss me.”(pg.197) Tom had never wanted to even touch Mayella, she was the one that came on to