To Kill A Mockingbird Innocence Quotes

You’re 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. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.(119)
A mockingbird is someone that is innocent and does no harm, with the exception of fear. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she has many mockingbirds in her story, but she has just as many defenders of mockingbirds too. Atticus Finch, a lawyer of Macomb defends people for a living, but he is also a nice man who sees the good in every person he meets. His children, Jem and Scout Finch, see the innocence in their father and when times are tough they protect him as much as they can. Judge Taylor, ,the local judge of Maycomb, is a white man who helps an innocent black man. Mayella Ewell, a low class resident of Maycomb makes the wrong decisions in life, but they are almost always driven by the fear of her father. Boo Radley, the basket case of Maycomb, harassed with negative words by other townspeople, but he never lets that
Judge Taylor is a well known white man in Maycomb, Alabama who is known for falling asleep during court. Like most white men at that time, he could care less for a black man and if he is sentenced to death, but when Tom Robinson is put up on trial it starts to be questionable.
Who? ‘Jem’s voice rose’ Who in this town did one thing to help Tom Robinson, just who?
His colored friends for one thing, and people like us. People like Judge Taylor. People like Heck Tate. Stop eating and start thinking, Jem. Did it every strike you that Judge Taylor naming Atticus to defend that boy was no accident? That Judge Taylor might have had his reasons for naming