To Kill A Mockingbird Response
To Kill A Mockingbird Essay To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is meaningful novel that was written in 1960. This novel discusses racism and societies negative views and influences. Majority of the characters in the book faces at least one of these obstacles. Throughout the book, the people who face hatred and mockery everyday are referred to as mockingbirds. Mockingbirds are chosen to represent this group of people because they do no wrong.
Two of the characters referenced this when they said:
Atticus said to Jem one day, ‘but remember, it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Your father is 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 …show more content…
He is quiet, lonely, mentally disabled man who faced the rumors of his neighbors, societies views on him, and torment of kids playing tricks on him. The neighbors tell stories of how his father died because Boo was cutting paper, stabbed him in the leg with scissors, and then kept cutting as if nothing happened. These rumors, although fake, sparked imaginations in the kids. Leaving them to wonder and try to figure out what exactly went on in his house. Harper Lee wrote, “Let’s try the back window.’ ‘Dill no.’ I said. He crawled to the window raised his head and looked in. Then I saw the shadow.” (71) The kids ran for their life in fear they might be killed. Later the readers find out that Boo is actually a caring, sweet man who helped save lives. However, it is because of how society depicts him, creepy and evil, that he is casted as an outsider and feared by many. Tom Robinson is similar to Boo in the way that, he is also a mockingbird. He was hated by many, sought after, and wrongfully convicted. Tom, a black man, had to deal with racism first hand. This was portrayed during the novel at Tom Robinson’s trial. He was falsely accused of raping a white girl, and it was proven. However, because of his skin color, he was convicted. Atticus, his lawyer, says, “They would never take a black man’s word over a white’s. It would never happen.” (282) It is because of the racism that Tom gets an unfair trial, goes to jail innocent, and gets treated like
Two of the characters referenced this when they said:
Atticus said to Jem one day, ‘but remember, it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Your father is 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 …show more content…
He is quiet, lonely, mentally disabled man who faced the rumors of his neighbors, societies views on him, and torment of kids playing tricks on him. The neighbors tell stories of how his father died because Boo was cutting paper, stabbed him in the leg with scissors, and then kept cutting as if nothing happened. These rumors, although fake, sparked imaginations in the kids. Leaving them to wonder and try to figure out what exactly went on in his house. Harper Lee wrote, “Let’s try the back window.’ ‘Dill no.’ I said. He crawled to the window raised his head and looked in. Then I saw the shadow.” (71) The kids ran for their life in fear they might be killed. Later the readers find out that Boo is actually a caring, sweet man who helped save lives. However, it is because of how society depicts him, creepy and evil, that he is casted as an outsider and feared by many. Tom Robinson is similar to Boo in the way that, he is also a mockingbird. He was hated by many, sought after, and wrongfully convicted. Tom, a black man, had to deal with racism first hand. This was portrayed during the novel at Tom Robinson’s trial. He was falsely accused of raping a white girl, and it was proven. However, because of his skin color, he was convicted. Atticus, his lawyer, says, “They would never take a black man’s word over a white’s. It would never happen.” (282) It is because of the racism that Tom gets an unfair trial, goes to jail innocent, and gets treated like