To Kill A Mockingbird Summary To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a young girl named Scout who lives in Southern Alabama in the 1930s with her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus. The main idea in this story is the loss of Scout’s innocence. This main idea uses symbolism, which is using something to represent something else. In this story, one of the symbolisms is the mockingbird as Scout’s innocence. The other symbolism is the loss of her innocence as the death of the mockingbird. At the very beginning of the story, we learn that Scout is too smart for her age, so we already know that she is mature.This means that she doesn’t have as much innocence as another child would. One part in the story that supports the main idea is when
