In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the mockingbird is a symbol of innocence. Throughout the story there are multiple people who are shown as mockingbirds. For instance, the character Dill Harris, a boy who visits Maycomb County every summer, was shown to be an innocent boy. He was innocent because of the way he is first described, what he likes to do, and what happened to him during the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape. During Dill’s first arrival in Maycomb County, a town run by the white majority, he is described in a specific way by another character named Scout Finch. For example, when Scout first saw Dill she said, “He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like
