As a lawyer and do to the time period that this book is set in which is the 1930s Atticus sees his fair share of racism. The racism that the see in the world the doesn't want to see it in his children, that is why atticus tries to prove to his children that the racism that he and the children see is unacceptable and not the fair way to treat people. Atticus views on racism may have been viewed to be wrong since he is a white, which were usually the cause of racism in the nineteen thirties. …show more content…
The meaning behind the metaphor is that dont kill or harm anything or anyone that is not doing anything bad. That metaphor also ties in with racism, because Atticus relates it to the horrible racism that witnesses weather it is from his corruption or just in everyday life. The first time that Atticus said that to his children is when Jem and Scout received BB guns from their Uncle Jack, when the kids were going to go and try out their new BB guns happend to find a mocking bird perched on a tree limb and one of the kids wanted to shoot the Mockingbird and then that is when Atticus satted “don't kill a mockingbird there just here to make nice music for us to nice music for everyone to