Theme Of Symbolism In 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

“How to Kill a Mockingbird” Essay “Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” (Harper Lee 90). Throughout the story “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the symbolism of the mockingbird plays a tremendous role. In the story the narrator Jean Louise “Scout” Finch who is six at the time when the story begins, takes us on a journey with her father Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer and her brother Jem Finch who begins to mature. As Scout grows up, she doesn't always understand what is going on, that’s when the symbolism of the mockingbird plays an immense role. Throughout the story a numerous amount of characters can be recognized as mockingbirds. From beginning to end the idea that if you kill a mockingbird is a sin is
They were innocents that were hurt or demolished by the touch of evil. A character that simulates a mockingbird was Tom Robinson. Tom was accused for a crime he never did, but it was other people's word against his. “I told him what i thought, but i couldn’t in truth say that we had more than a good chance. I guess Tom was tired of white men’s chances and preferred to take his own,” (Harper Lee 235 & 236). Tom knew he had no chance when it came to a “negro” against a white man's word. An innocent man was destroyed by evil. When Tom was killed, so was a mockingbird.
There are many points in “How to Kill a Mockingbird” where Scout compares the killing of a mockingbird to a situation. “Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?,” (Harper Lee 276). A situation where the killing of a mockingbird shows the destroying of innocence, is when Atticus doesn’t want to take Boo Radley to go to court, Scout refers to it as if he goes to court it’s like killing a mockingbird. Boo is innocent, he was protecting Jem and Scout so why would you go to court with someone who had good intentions and saved lives. That would be like killing a