To Kill A Mockingbird Society's Innocence

Tom Robinson’s case contributes to how he resembles a mockingbird and shows the injustice of society. Tom Robinson, an African-American man accused of raping a girl named Mayella Ewell, has his case taken to court. Tom is tried in front of a jury of twelve white men along with a white judge which does not display a fair representation of his peers. This results in them finding Tom guilty and sentencing him to death, even though all evidence points to him being innocent. Tom later gets shot while trying to escape prison. Atticus Finch, Tom’s lawyer, says in the beginning of the book, “‘It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’” (Harper Lee 119). Using the word “sin” shows harming an innocent being would be a very cruel thing to do, especially coming from Atticus. This relates to Tom Robinson’s situation because every piece of evidence from the trial proves he is not guilty, yet he still gets sent to jail and ends up being shot. The town’s newspaper publisher, Mr. Underwood, writes about Tom’s death and says, “ [I] likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children” (Lee 323). This quote emphasizes the similarities between Tom’s case and a mockingbird. Equally important, it uses words like “senseless” and “slaughter” to further highlight the severity of harming a creature who did nothing wrong. Lee compares Tom Robinson to the “songbirds” because both of them have positive effects on their surroundings and do nothing but be beneficial. Through the case of Tom Robinson, Lee shows the connection with the innocence of Tom to the symbol of a mockingbird.

In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird innocence is spread throughout the novel. Innocence is connected to the mockingbird because they do nothing but sing. There are three examples of innocence within the novel; Boo Radley, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson.

Scout Finch shows her naivety when she fears Boo but starts to better understand the affects that misjudgements can have on people from experiencing Tom Robinson’s trial. Scout's naivety is revealed when after she realizes that Boo Radley has placed a blanket on her without her knowing. Scouts judges Boo because of the stories she hears about Boo from other people. After experiencing Mrs. Dubose’s house burning down, Scout and Jem return to their home where they discover a blanket around Scout supposedly placed there by Boo Radley, “My stomach turned turned to water and I nearly threw up when Jem held out the blanket and crept towards me.”

The Art of Preserving Innocence In the real world and in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, people try many different ways to preserve one’s own innocence. One example of this is how in real life, parents do not allow their children to watch television or own their own cell phone. The children's innocence is preserved by doing this in a sense that not being able to watch television means you cannot see disastrous situations all around the world, like people dying, that younger audiences may not be used to.

The Quest For Innocence To Kill a Mockingbird puts countless modern, real world themes such as mistrials, innocence, and bigotry as well as heroes such as Atticus on display. The Innocence Project and some of it’s key players such as Greg Hampikian weave many of these To Kill a Mockingbird themes into a lone organization with many subgroups functioning across America for fair trials and proof of innocence. Throughout the history of justice, unjust trial practices have been tainting the life changing decisions that are constantly being made in the courts of Maycomb County in To Kill a Mockingbird and the world in which we live today. Some of these practices include an unbalanced jury of “peers” that don’t actually include any of the defendant’s

In the novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee(author) has perfectly portrayed innocence to experience through the eyes of Jean Louis Finch(a.k.a. Scout).The lessons, on which, Scout incurs: Lee does an excellent job of building suspense in the closing chapters; the suspense which Lee builds helps us and scout understand the lessons that is being conveyed. Near the end of the novel,Maycomb is bustling, since it is the night of Halloween. Scout’s older brother,Jeremy Atticus Finch(a.k.a Jem) does not dress up, however, Scout dresses up as a ham hock for Mrs.Merriweather’s Halloween pageant. Scout describes her costume as a ham with legs:

Losing your childhood innocence At some point in life, all children grow up and lose their youthful innocence. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill Mockingbird tells a story of one boy and the experience that causes him to grow up. Sometimes children can lose their innocence by losing something such as hope, faith or going through an intense trauma. Losing innocence can be riveting and it instantly changes your mindset.

Have you ever done something and later when questioned about it, was in denial? In the world when people do something and not take ownership, it begins to deteriorate their innocence as a person. Just as if a robber stole from a bank and later identified for the supposed crime, was in denial; will result later in the truth coming out as well as his innocence along with it. However, many of people’s innocence are destroyed through the contact with evil. This is as if a person began to help a homeless man and the man gets a knife and stabs him for no apparent reason, the helper’s innocence is lost and begins to question why someone he helped so much could turn and do what he did.

Innocence versus Experience, a great and very important concept in To Kill A Mocking Bird. This concept has been spotted several times throughout the book; the innocent Scout and her father, a man who has experienced so many.

(225). This shows that Aunt Alexandra is dictating all of Scouts decisions just because Walter is of a different class than them. Scout thinks that femininity is all about women telling other women what to do and she doesn’t want any part of that. Although Scout likes to speak her mind, she has not yet figured out what her feminine identity is, so when women tell her what to do she gets confused and goes back to what she has always known. Therefore, Scout battles her feminine identity when Aunt Alexandra forces her to do her to do

In “To Kill A Mockingbird” the mockingbird is more than just a little bird. It is a symbol of innocence. Mockingbirds are very innocent birds in which do no harm to the people around them. Throughout the story, many characters lose innocence and are harmed for no valid reason. Jem is affected by this the most.

“Your father’s right... 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.” (Lee 119). Tom Robinson (an African American male accused of rape toward a white woman) is one of the main examples of a mockingbird.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is best known as a literary classic, telling the tale of a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch’s childhood in a southern Alabama town during the great depression. While the fate of a black male convicted of rape still looms in the synopsis. To Kill a Mockingbird the title of the novel, refers to a quote on page 119. Both said by Atticus Finch the town of Maycomb's lawyer and Miss Maudie his neighbor, “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”. As said by Miss Maudie “ Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119). The title of this novel isn’t only referencing this quote,

Have you ever experienced an event that changed your opinions or feelings towards a certain thing? This was the case of Jean Louise or Scout in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout shows a loss of innocence throughout the novel as she is faced with the case of Tom Robinson, which impacts her life as a whole by making her realize that not everyone is like Atticus.

In this novel, innocence is represented from all ages yet all still contribute to the mockingbird factor. Charles Baker “Dill” Harris doesn’t develop and mature throughout the story. In this way, he is seen as a mocking bird because he’s innocent by his childish actions. His childish actions flow throughout To Kill A Mockingbird and he never changes this lifestyle, because that’s all he knows how to do. An example of this is in the court scene when we wasn’t aware of what’s going on, “Dill leaned across me and asked Jem what Atticus was doing”(Lee 254). In this scene the children snuck into the courthouse to listen to Atticus defend Tom Robinson, and Dill is questioning what is happening in the court.This scene is an example of