To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes Analysis

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee helps us to understand as to who are the mockingbirds in the novel she especially wanted us to see Atticus, Boo, and Tom. Throughout the book Lee is able to present to us many valuable meanings, but the one that stands out to everyone is that innocence should be protected, but cannot always be protected. Many characters can be portrayed as mockingbirds throughout the whole novel, but the three that stand out to me are Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, and Boo Radley. These three characters are innocent anyway you look at it, but each of them get in hurt in their own unique way.
Atticus is an amazing character who is able to show us through his actions just what real innocence is. As seen in this quote, “I’m simply defending a Negro—his name’s Tom Robinson.” Atticus is forced to accept the defense of Tom Robinson a case that he does not want to take. Atticus takes the risk of defending a black man accused of raping a white woman. By doing so he puts his life, and his family's, in danger. Atticus is an innocent person, but after all he is trying to do the people in Maycomb County are still hate Atticus. Yet, Atticus is a mockingbird. Since mockingbirds make beautiful music, because Atticus was standing up for Tom Robinson, Atticus was making beautiful music …show more content…
"Anyway, Jem hollered and I didn't hear him any more an' the next thing- Mr. Ewell was tryin' to squeeze me to death, I reckon... then somebody yanked Mr. Ewell down.” Now this is a great example of Boo’s innocence and kindness. Putting others life before his own takes a lot of courage. We’re always talking how innocence should be protected, but now innocence is doing the protecting. Even though innocence is doing the protecting we still need to keep people like this in the world. We need to keep on protecting the