Harper lee wrote the novel “to Kill a Mockingbird” which is a story about innocence, knowledge, prejudice and courage. In the beginning the main character, Scout, starts out to be a very immature child not knowing the prejudice times around her, as the story goes on she gains knowledge of these times by fellow kids around her accusing her dad of being a "Nigga” lover" which then, it was an insult. Her dad was being courageous lawyer defending a black man being falsely accused of raping a white girl.
Her dad, Atticus, is a criminal defense attorney only doing his job and not discriminating against this man.
In the book "Shoot, all the blue jays you want, but remember it’s a sin to kill mockingbird" is referring to the black man in the story, Tom. He symbolizes the mockingbird because all the mockingbirds do, is sing for our enjoyment and, so if you kill them it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird He is the mockingbird in the story and all he does is help and is accused of a crime and in the end is eventually guilty and dies.
The mocking bird symbolises innocence and only does good by “sing for our enjoyment”. Tom Robinson is a mockingbird in the novel he only does well by helping the girl and yet he is framed and in jail he was killed. Thus reflecting the title of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Although Atticus convinced the audience at court that
Tom was innocent which he was. Which proves how racist and unjust the jury is.