To Kill a Mockingbird

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy that’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” This quote is from Miss Maudie explaining to the children within To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper E. Lee what Atticus their father has said. In this story, it is explain from a point of view of a child named Scout. She experiences many difficulties after the Great Depressing. Furthermore, her father is called to defend a colored person in a crime he didn’t committed in a town filled with racism. Overall, Harper E. Lee proves that in the story the loss of innocence is unavoidable with the characters, and conflicts. Firstly Lee introduce the loss of innocence is avoidable in the rising action as a girl named Scout was walking home passed the Radley place, which people are scared of. She saw something that caught her eye when she was running home in such a way that she’d went back to find out that it was a piece of gum. This shows her innocence since she was curious and went back. For example, she says, “My first impulse was to get it in my mouth as quickly as possible, but I remembered where I was” (Lee 44). This quote explains how others corrupted Scout’s mind in thinking it was poisonous. In closing, while Scout is an example of the loss of innocence, another example is Aunt Alexandra’s conflict. Secondly Lee introduces another example when Aunt Alexandra came to stay with Scout. The unexpected aunt came, she made Scout to change her ways. For example, when Atticus, Scout’s father, says “How’d you like for her to come live with us” (Lee 171), and she replied, “I said I would be like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances” (Lee 171). This quote shows that Scout’s losing her innocence since she had lied to Atticus like that. In the beginning Scot resented lying, the fact that she is lying to Atticus proves that she had lost a piece of innocence much like Walter Cunningham. Thirdly, Lee introduces another example