Ashley Staton
Mrs. Temple
Accelerated English III
10 November 2016
Slaughtering Songbirds In To Kill a Mockingbird, a mockingbird represents innocence being destroyed by evil. Atticus, the father or Scout and Jem, tell his children they can “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it 's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119.) Atticus tries to teach his children not to mess with innocent individuals for it is wrong. They have done nothing to deserve it. However, many characters in this novel innocence is destroyed by evil. Miss Maudie the Finch’s neighbor expounds upon Atticus explaining why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Miss Maudie says, “They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they …show more content…
That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119.) Miss Maudie’s explanation illustrates what Atticus is trying to say to the children. Harper Lee, in To Kill a Mockingbird, uses Tom Robinison, Boo Radley and Jem Finch to symbolize the innocence of a mockingbird. Throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many characters that symbolize the mockingbird. Tom Robinson is a “mild-mannered, conscientious black man whose kind acts earn him only trouble” (Telgen 292.) Tom Robinson walked past Mayella Ewell, a young white girl living in poverty, and pitied her as he saw her being overworked. Tom Robinson dismissed the “social dicta that forbid a black man from associating with a white woman” and went to help her with a heavy chore out of an act of kindness (Marshall 1.) Mayella Ewell falsely accuses, Tom Robinson, the African American, field hand of raping her. Atticus Finch is a part of Maycomb County’s “oldest and most prominent families” (Telgen 290) and is appointed the defense attorney for Tom Robinson’s prosecution. The city of Maycomb disproves of Atticus because they know Attics will do the best job he can for a fair trial. The town and Atticus knows Tom is a dead man before the trial even commences, but Atticus does the best job …show more content…
Jem is the older brother of Scout and the son of Atticus Finch. Jem’s innocence physically is not taken away, but mentally. At the beginning of the To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout are young children growing up in the the town of Maycomb, playing ball outside and getting into mischievous. Scout, Jem, and Dill grow up playing with each other and not caring about anything else in the world. However,that is until Jem the evil in town of of Maycomb takes Jem Finch’s innocence away. Jem Finch is stripped of his childhood at an early age because of Tom Robinson’s trial. During the trial of Tom Robinson, Jem’s viewpoints of the world he knows is shaken. The prosecution shows the injustices and evils of the town of Maycomb. Jem has to mature and becomes adolescence fast; he no longer plays childish games with Scout and Dill. Jem Finch goes to the prosecution everyday and sees all the corruption things that goes of the town and trial. Jem Finch must act this way to try and protect Scout from the evil of the world. Jem did not do anything to destroy his childhood mind and innocence, therefore h symbolizes a
Mrs. Temple
Accelerated English III
10 November 2016
Slaughtering Songbirds In To Kill a Mockingbird, a mockingbird represents innocence being destroyed by evil. Atticus, the father or Scout and Jem, tell his children they can “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it 's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119.) Atticus tries to teach his children not to mess with innocent individuals for it is wrong. They have done nothing to deserve it. However, many characters in this novel innocence is destroyed by evil. Miss Maudie the Finch’s neighbor expounds upon Atticus explaining why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Miss Maudie says, “They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they …show more content…
That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119.) Miss Maudie’s explanation illustrates what Atticus is trying to say to the children. Harper Lee, in To Kill a Mockingbird, uses Tom Robinison, Boo Radley and Jem Finch to symbolize the innocence of a mockingbird. Throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many characters that symbolize the mockingbird. Tom Robinson is a “mild-mannered, conscientious black man whose kind acts earn him only trouble” (Telgen 292.) Tom Robinson walked past Mayella Ewell, a young white girl living in poverty, and pitied her as he saw her being overworked. Tom Robinson dismissed the “social dicta that forbid a black man from associating with a white woman” and went to help her with a heavy chore out of an act of kindness (Marshall 1.) Mayella Ewell falsely accuses, Tom Robinson, the African American, field hand of raping her. Atticus Finch is a part of Maycomb County’s “oldest and most prominent families” (Telgen 290) and is appointed the defense attorney for Tom Robinson’s prosecution. The city of Maycomb disproves of Atticus because they know Attics will do the best job he can for a fair trial. The town and Atticus knows Tom is a dead man before the trial even commences, but Atticus does the best job …show more content…
Jem is the older brother of Scout and the son of Atticus Finch. Jem’s innocence physically is not taken away, but mentally. At the beginning of the To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout are young children growing up in the the town of Maycomb, playing ball outside and getting into mischievous. Scout, Jem, and Dill grow up playing with each other and not caring about anything else in the world. However,that is until Jem the evil in town of of Maycomb takes Jem Finch’s innocence away. Jem Finch is stripped of his childhood at an early age because of Tom Robinson’s trial. During the trial of Tom Robinson, Jem’s viewpoints of the world he knows is shaken. The prosecution shows the injustices and evils of the town of Maycomb. Jem has to mature and becomes adolescence fast; he no longer plays childish games with Scout and Dill. Jem Finch goes to the prosecution everyday and sees all the corruption things that goes of the town and trial. Jem Finch must act this way to try and protect Scout from the evil of the world. Jem did not do anything to destroy his childhood mind and innocence, therefore h symbolizes a