To+Kill+a+Mockingbird+Essay

“To Kill a Mockingbird is a sin.” In the book __To Kill a Mockingbird__, by Harper Lee states that because Mockingbirds are so harmless it would be a sin to kill one. In this novel many people were described as one.

Did the way Maycomb County treated Tom Robinson make him a Mockingbird? Yes, he was a Mockingbird because he was a nice man. Who just helped a young women with nothing to gain for himself, but all Maycomb County saw was the color of his skin. It didn’t matter that he was just trying to help Mayella Ewell. They just blamed him because it was better to blame a black man for mistreating a white woman even though they all know it was a white man who did it. And that Mayella Ewell used him because he is a black man. On page 194 Tom Robinson told the court what Mayella Ewell exactly did to him, “she said she never kissed a grown man before and that she might has well kiss a nigger.” He is going to prison for something he didn’t do. He was just being nice and look where that got him.

“Boo was about six-and-a- half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands are bloodstained,” are the rumors that go around town about Boo. Boo is like a Mockingbird because he always stayed inside since he was young adult. No one seen him since. Now Scout, Dill, and Jem pester him by trying to get him to come out. Even though it is obvious he doesn’t want to because if he wanted to he would have all ready. He doesn’t bother anyone he just keeps to himself and if he did come outside he will be in the lime light, but he is really shy. So he wouldn’t want to be in the center of attention.

Children have a different view on life then adults. They are more innocent and Mr. Dolpus Raymond saw that at the court house when Dill came out crying because of how they were treating Tom Robinson. On page 201 Mr. Dolpus Raymond tells Dill and Scout that, “because you’re children and you can understand it. Things haven’t caught up with that one’s instinct yet. Let him get a little bit older and he won’t get sick and cry. Maybe things will strike him as being not quite right, say, but he won’t cry, not when he gets a few years on him.” Basically what he is talking about as adults we might know that something is unfair and injustice, but there so cold hearted or just used to it already that they just turn their heads the other direction and keep on walking. While kids are more immune to the injustice and unfairness of the world that they get emotional because of how injustice people are acting towards each other. For example, Jem was the only one who cried about Tom Robinson being found guilty because he knew from the trail that Tom Robinson was innocent, but couldn’t understand how the jury could find him guilty. When he asked Atticus about it he said that its’ just the way things are. How can adults be so detached to the injustice decisions that are happening at there watch?

All in all, we can see how Boo and Tom Robinson are Mockingbirds because they are so nice and it would be a sin to mistreat them or harm them. Also we can see how children might have a better insight on knowing what is wrong and what is right better than adults can.