A Southern Life Through A Child’s Eyes To Kill a Mockingbird, a well known novel still read today after being written by Harper Lee in the 1960's. Scout, the little girl in To Kill a Mockingbird goes from thinking killing a mockingbird, a literal rule, to it being a serious mature matter and that it can involve not just animals but people too.
Scout being young and not fully understanding why you can't kill a mockingbird is clueless to knowing why she is not allowed, until Miss. Maudie explains it a little bit better than her father Atticus, not really explaining it at all. He is just telling her that it is wrong and letting her find out on her own. “ Your father's right.¨ she said. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but 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. Thats why its a sin to kill a mockingbird.¨ Atticus never really tells Scout and her brother Jem why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird but Jem has a good idea of why it's bad. Scout on the other hand wonders why. And now that Miss.Maudie has broken it down she …show more content…
The whole thing causes it to be taken to trial. Atticus is representing Tom in this case. Well when the day came for the trial, Jem, Scout, and Dill went to go watch it. During the time of the trial Scout learned that Tom is also a mockingbird, not ever wanting to hurt her but only helping her out of the goodness of his heart. However, when Tom got shot seventeen times it became a whole new matter. As Mr. Underwood said ¨… it was a sin to kill cripples, be they sitting, or escaping.” Everyone knew Tom didn't beat or rape Mayella, that he was just there and that her father did. Tom Robinson not being able to use his left arm and only wanting to help people just because he can, makes him a
Scout being young and not fully understanding why you can't kill a mockingbird is clueless to knowing why she is not allowed, until Miss. Maudie explains it a little bit better than her father Atticus, not really explaining it at all. He is just telling her that it is wrong and letting her find out on her own. “ Your father's right.¨ she said. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but 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. Thats why its a sin to kill a mockingbird.¨ Atticus never really tells Scout and her brother Jem why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird but Jem has a good idea of why it's bad. Scout on the other hand wonders why. And now that Miss.Maudie has broken it down she …show more content…
The whole thing causes it to be taken to trial. Atticus is representing Tom in this case. Well when the day came for the trial, Jem, Scout, and Dill went to go watch it. During the time of the trial Scout learned that Tom is also a mockingbird, not ever wanting to hurt her but only helping her out of the goodness of his heart. However, when Tom got shot seventeen times it became a whole new matter. As Mr. Underwood said ¨… it was a sin to kill cripples, be they sitting, or escaping.” Everyone knew Tom didn't beat or rape Mayella, that he was just there and that her father did. Tom Robinson not being able to use his left arm and only wanting to help people just because he can, makes him a