“[Tom Robinson’s] left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right… I could see it was no use to him” (186). This proves to the reader how prevalent discrimination is at this point in time. When Tom was accused, it was like shooting a mockingbird because Tom had done nothing wrong. Boo Radley is accused, through town gossip and rumours of trying to kill his family, “Mrs.Radley ran out screaming into the street that Arthur was killing them all...” (11). He was also accused of having to go to an asylum, because he was crazy, however, “no Radley was going to an asylum” (11).
All Boo did was mind his own business and got punished and judged for it. Boos innocence was hidden behind his way of protecting himself from turning into a cruel citizen of Maycomb like the rest. Boo was judged unfairly his whole life but in the end the only thing he did was save two young lives, this making him a representation of the mockingbird. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are several people symbolized by the mockingbird. The mockingbird symbol is used to represent innocence and people getting judged unfairly which teaches those who read the novel, empathy and not to judge others by things heard by a second-hand
Mrs. Stinger Boo Radley- The mysterious Arthur Radley is blamed for virtually any unexplainable act in Maycomb. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work. Because of his past history of apparent mental instability and the forced seclusion within the Radley House that his father strictly enforced, he is accused of everything from being a peeping tom to poisoning pecans. There is no evidence or witnesses to any of these accusations, but rumors persist throughout the town, making Boo a man with no friends or expectations for a better future. The jury- Tom Robinson is accused of rape by a white family, the Ewells, who have been, according to Atticus, "the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations."
“I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: “Guilty… Guilty… Guilty… Guilty… : I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each “guilty” was a separate stab between them.” (Lee, 282). Jem is now realizing that there are serious problems in the town of Maycomb. However his most “mockingbird” like quality is his sympathetic nature. When Nathan Radley fills in the tree hole that Boo left gifts for the kids in, Jem cries because he realizes how important that was to Boo.
It is never said, but all the evidence points to this because the tree is in the Radley yard itself. Also, when Mr. Radley, Boo’s father, plugs up the tree hole with cement, Jem starts to cry because Radley has destroyed the only attempt for friendship Boo could have had. Boo Radley probably hid these things in the tree in an attempt to communicate with somebody in the outside world, showing the reader that he means no harm which further shows his innocence. Boo builds up his innocence significantly until the climax of the novel, where his innocence is destroyed when he performs a heroic act. After Bob Ewell attacks the children
To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is a novel which utilises the symbolism of a mockingbird throughout the text. Mockingbirds are gentle, harmless creatures, therefore making it “a sin to kill a mockingbird” as Atticus so proudly announces. Lee depicts a dysfunctional American society with a narrow-mindedness towards racial segregation and inequality, and uses the imagery of the mockingbird to symbolise the destruction of innocence, This representation can be seen within Tom Robinson, who was killed by corruption within the system and racial prejudice, Boo Radley, who was slain by society’s judgement towards those who don’t conform, and Dill, who shows the happiness a mockingbird can bring, flitting in and out of one’s life, and then his loss of innocence after the trial.
This lie however did not last very long for the woman that he visited quickly discovered that Huck was a boy then Huck proceeded into telling another lie. Although he did get a fair amount of information about what people were saying in town and he found out that the community was looking for Jim and claim a generous reward. One lie that Huck truly regretted was when he lied to Jim. After Huck and Jim had been separated by the fog, Huck found Jim sleeping on shore. When Jim woke up, Huck Finn tricked Jim into believing that everything had been a lie; the accident, the fog everything.
The mockingbirds in the story, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley get undeserving treatment during the novel until it is known to the people of Maycomb that they are good and pure. In the case of Tom Robinson it was too late as they killed him before they could learn what a good person he actually was. He got charged for a crime he did not commit, and Boo Radley got rumors spread about him that were anything but true. “It is wrong to kill the mockingbird just because you don’t like its
In the 1930s, African Americans were already treated unfairly, but, Tom being accused of raping a white woman made his life awful. Tom was ruled guilty in the trial even though all the evidence pointed toward him being innocent. For example, in the movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus makes a point to ask the sheriff what side the bruises on Mayella's face were. After he told her that they were on the right side, Atticus knew that Tom's left arm could not move so, how could he have hit her? Anyways, even Tom knew that he would be guilty, for example, in chapter 19 it says "'Mr.
He doesn’t want to vote guilty until he has enough evidence that this boy did indeed kill his father. Many different points are made about the boy who supposedly stabbed his father, that are cross examined well by juror #8 who still stands alone at not guilty. All of the evidence that the 11 jurors found contains flaws in