The Loss of Truth and Innocence - to Kill a Mockingbird

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A mockingbird represents all that is innocent and good. When someone or something is a mockingbird they do not harm society; instead, they help it. They are a light shining in a dark room. Mockingbird’s are killed because of the flaws in society like inequality and injustice and when a mockingbird dies society loses someone who will actually bring good into society rather than evil. Love is something that is pure and truthful. When someone possesses a genuine love for someone they would never do anything to hurt that person. Raymond Dolphus, a character in To Kill A Mockingbird, had biracial children and pretends to be drunk because white people like himself won’t ever understand the way he lives and he does this to protect his children and his family. When Mr. Dolphus starts talking to Scout and Dill about why he pretends to be a drunk he says, “It ain’t honest but it’s mighty helpful to folks. Secretly Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live” (Lee 268). Raymond Dolphus represents a Mockingbird because even though he’s shadowed by prejudice of Maycomb he’s still a light shining through because he would do anything for his family because he loves them. Mr. Dolphus is a victim of the prejudice of Maycomb because he has to hide who he really is so that people have a reason to explain his crazy behavior for why he married a black woman instead of the actual reason that race doesn’t matter to him unlike most of the population of Maycomb. In Maycomb most white people don’t have a heart or love for the blacks but Mr. Dolphus breaks that barrier of the whites looking down on the blacks. Another scene that demonstrates purity and truth is when Scout stopped the mob attack by humanizing Walter Cunningham. In this scene Scout is asking Mr. Cunningham about his son
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