The Nature Of Evil In To Kill A Mockingbird

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The symbol mockingbird stands for innocent people who try to do good things and they end up getting punished for it. Innocent people who are destroyed by forces of evil. The innocence is destroyed by people harming the mockingbird who does good things. Mockingbirds are people who have been in contact with evil.Doing good things does not always have a good outcome that comes from what people have done.Mockingbirds cannot hurt people , so it would be a sin to hurt them.The mockingbird is very important in the novel. People who do good things and they do not receive any reward in return. Many people who do good things and they end up suffering like other people.People who do bad things also have been suffering a tough life like other people who try to do good things. Jem and Scout at first were innocent . They both thought people were good inside and outside without having an idea of racial segregation. People end up being harmed for a certain race they are and for what they believe in. It is not …show more content…
Sometimes people are viewed as being an evil person. When you meet that person. You would understand how tough their life is. Committing a sin is not a good thing to do. People would not be able to something for someone to forgive the sin they have committed. No matter what race you are. People should be treated as someone important.People can be someone innocent until they face all sorts of evil in their lives.Miss Maudie said,” Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make make music for us to enjoy.They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Bunch of innocent people have been destroyed by terrible things they have experienced.Problems can also be very intense. Simply doing something good does not result in anyone getting a

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