Boo Radley Innocent

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Nobody would ever want to kill a mockingbird, but if you do kill one it is like destroying a little things innocents. When you kill a moving bird you are creating a sin, but you aren't also doing that you are also killing an innocent little thing. How could people do such a to such an innocent thing. Some people have killed many mockingbirds, but not many people have. Nowadays, girls can kill a mockingbird, so much easier with words than boys, but boys can can physically hurt the mockingbird and maybe put the mockingbird on its bed. On the first day of school for Scout she is forced to wear a dress and Jem starts to crack up and Scout gets embarrassed. Scout asks after why do I have to wear this, nobody will care what I wear …show more content…
A human "mockingbird" example is Boo Radley, Boo spends all of his life as a prisoner in his own house because his father is very overzealous in punishing him for one childhood mistake. Boo also kills Bob Ewell just to save Jem and Scout from being killed by Bob Ewell. Then later in the story Boo gets put on trial, the judges make a decision which was the sentence of death. Another example of a human "mockingbird" is Tom Robinson. The court put him on trial for raping and beating Mayella Ewell, but when the lawyers ask him questions they heard a whole other story than the story that Mayella and her husband said. The town commits an ultimate sin in the very end by saying he is guilty and sentenced him to death. The surprising thing is that many people do not care about blacks or the people that do not really talk or that are more innocent than others. Just because people are different skin colors we are all the same underneath. Why do people judge others that are different, just because they are different it doesn't give you the right to say things or hurt them. When you kill a mockingbird you are creating a sin, but you aren't also doing that you are also killing an innocent little

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