To Kill A Mocking Bird Analysis

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...But sing their heart out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 94). In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, there are plenty of symbols to learn from. This essay will focus on just one: The mockingbird. Harper Lee uses the mockingbird as a symbol to represent kindness, peace, and love of someone who is innocent that is being discriminated upon due to their differences. One lesson the mockingbird teaches the reader is to never discriminate others. For a mockingbird represents the kind hearted innocent being hurt upon in anyway. In the book, Scout finds an inch worm and starts playing with it until Jem tells her to stop as he sees Tom Robinson in the inchworm. Scout says “‘Why couldn’t I mash him?’ I asked. ‘Because they don’t bother you,’ Jem answered” (Lee 320). In the previous quote, Scout sees an inchworm and automatically wants to kill it. Jem stops her. In my opinion, Jem's reaction is due to his relation of the inchworm to Tom Robinson. After Jem watched Tom persecuted by the entire county, he realizes that hurting others when they have done no wrong is immoral. Essentially Harper Lee is comparing the worm to people in the story who are like mockingbirds, like Tom Robinson. Later in the novel, Scout brings Arthur (Boo) Radley home after he saves her
The author uses the mockingbird to describe a kind person that is innocent while being persecuted in any way shape or form. Lee introduces characters that at first the audience does not know if they are honorable or sinful. But through the story, Lee shows that these people are good, honorable, kind, innocent people. That in many ways reflects the beauty of a mockingbird. As it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee shows how wrong it is to persecute, stereotype, and to kill those who are innocent in her book and how it reflects on the real