Innocence And Justice Symbolized With A Mockingbird By...

Evil has attempted and sometimes succeeded in destroying innocent people. To Kill A Mockingbird is a very successful novel by Harper Lee, that tells a story used to investigate the issue of innocence and justice symbolized with a mockingbird. The story, set in the 1930s, is portrayed through the young eyes of Jean Louise â€Å"Scout† Finch, with her widowed father Atticus and her older brother Jeremy â€Å"Jem† Finch. The Finches live in a tired old town in Maycomb, Alabama. Set during the rough times of the Great Depression, it was also a period of discrimination and racial inequality. A black man is falsely accused of rapping a young white female. The children get caught up with the trial and it affects them in a life changing way. To Kill A Mockingbird has a bigger symbolic meaning than literal to the plot, through the image of mockingbirds, she permits the characters to show innocence, compassion and justice to the lectors . A mockingbird comes to represent innoce nce, as Miss Maudie said: â€Å"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.† (Lee 90). Characters that could be considered mockingbirds are Arthur â€Å"Boo† Radley, because of the crimes he has been committed of, the Maycombians shaping up his life and reputation and Boo saved the Finch children. Jem confidence was destroyed by the evil of mankind, he becomes a young mature man, and saved Scout. Tom Robinson was killed byShow MoreRelatedA Prejudice Society in To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee745 Words   |  3 Pagesshe lives in grows her innocence is destroyed in the process. In her novel To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee symbolically uses Mocking Birds to show the destruction of innocence. 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