Atticus Is A Sin In To Kill A Mockingbird

Have you ever heard a mockingbird sing? Well, did you know it is a sin to Kill a Mockingbird? In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus says it is a sin. Atticus is a father to 2 children and has a maid named Calpurnia. Scout and Jem would always walk to school together, and they would pass an old scary looking house, that they would call the Radley Place where Boo Radley lived in, and would not come out. Dill comes along to hang out with Jem and Scout for the summers. When Tom Robinson, an African-American man, is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, Atticus is appointed as the defense attorney. Scout and Jem find themselves taunted at school due to their father's defense of a black man. After Tom Robinson is found guilty, he later is shot during an attempt to escape jail. After everything calms down, that following fall, Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout one late afternoon with a knife, and ends up killing himself instead. …show more content…
Scout would always pass by and look for Boo. Boo Radley was actually named Arthur. Together Jem, Scout, and Dill make up a game to provoke Boo to come out. In their local myths, Boo eats squirrels and wonders the street at night. Until one night, when Jem, Scout, and Dill go into the Radley property to try and catch a glance at Boo, they get startled by a loud gunshot. As they try and escape, thinking they were being shot at, Jem gets his pants stuck on the fence and struggles to get out. Once he is able to free himself from his trousers they make a run for it, to find every adult in the neighborhood, surrounding the Radley place. Boo had shot at a negro, to scare him away. Jem decides to go back for his pants, to find them folded, as if someone expected him to come back for