To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes

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In To Kill A Mockingbird some characters like Jem, Boo Radley, Tom
Robinson, Dill and Mr. Raymond are identified as mockingbirds. To kill a mockingbird can be referenced to destroying innocence, or in this case innocents who have been destroyed or injured through contact with evil. In this case, it could be Atticus, Tom Robinson or Jem.
Atticus is a very important character in the story as he is the father of
Scout and Jem, he is also very smart and still learns as much as Jem and Scout.
If Atticus were to have a song to represent him it would have to be “They Don’t
Care About Us” by Michael Jackson as one part of the song goes “Beat me, hate me, You can never break me, Will me, thrill me, You can never kill me, Sue me, Sue me, Everybody do me,Kick me, kick me, Don't you black or white me”.I relate this
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Tom Robinson’s song would have to be “I Want to Live” by Skillet and the part that would represent tom robinson would be these lines I know you'll come
Uribe 2 to me, I wait in misery I want to fight for this, save me from this darkness and how I relate this to tom is that he is suffering from all the bad things that are happening to him in his life right now and he just wants to be free from his
“darkness” is a great example of a mockingbird because the way Miss Maudie described it was "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy…but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird."
Tom never did a single wrong thing to Mayella. He helped her when needed said hello to her and never asked for money, But in the end, Tom was wrongly accused, jailed, killed and wrongfully

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