Theme Of Evil In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, follows a young girl named Scout Finch who lives in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. She goes around with her brother and her friend, Dill, and learns quickly that there is tension building up, as conflict breaks out when a woman accuses a black man of raping her. Scout’s father, Atticus, Scout’s father, defends Tom Robinson, knowing he is innocent, and falsely accused.By presenting Boo Radley and Tom Robinson as characters who can’t comprehend evil, developing Bob Ewell as a horrible and deceptive person, whilst developing Atticus as the “hero”, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee gets across how there is corruption and evil in the world in order to get across her opinion how the world is corrupted with death and violence. This theme is still relevant, where racism and evil are an everyday encounter, and destroy citizens who encounter it.

Throughout the story, Harper Lee portrays Arthur (Boo) Radley as a man fighting through his inner evil to give her insight on good and evil.. Scout said she “ran past the Radley Place as fast as I could, not stopping until I reached the safety of our front porch”(44), to show how the children of Maycomb were afraid of Arthur Radley. Later in
They then mention that killing a mockingbird is a sin. This could be interpreted as good and evil, because killing the bird makes you evil, and sparing it makes you good. When you interpret the meaning of the trial, it is revealed that Tom Robinson is the mockingbird, and the angry townsfolk who goes out try and lynch him are the ones evil, trying to kill the mockingbird. When he was put in jail, his innocence was corrupted by hatred and evil from the the injustice of racism. This gives a message to the readers about the crime and evil that is unleashed whenever they go out of their house, and evil exists, even in the house, as shown with Boo