3.+To+Kill+A+Mockingbird+QA

"Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?"(126)

As you first pick up the book //To Kill A Mockingbird,// by Harper Lee, don’t just look at the cover and the number of pages it beholds. Look deeper into the well, of many mysteries and adventures. This book mainly focuses on a group of ordinary kids who go through extraordinary changes. This classic book takes place in a small town in Alabama, by the name of Maycomb County. Now in Maycomb it is very rare for something important and amazing to happen until one summer a series of changes occur. A young innocent Negro man is charged of rape, a man who never steps out of his house finally takes a risk, a drunk wanting revenge, the truth to mockingbirds, and of course children who are the victims of these changes. The thing that explains these events starts of with the mockingbird, a small bird that holds the secret in its heart. The children were told when they got their air-rifle presents, that they could shoot at all the jays they wanted, but it was a sin to shoot a mockingbird. Now a question lingers silently in the air above our heads, why is it that shooting a mockingbird is a sin?

The quote itself is a bit confusing to actually think the answer to right off the bat. Although if you really thrust yourself forward as in a roller coaster it will slowly come to you. This quote was said by Scout, she is trying to inform Atticus her father that having something innocent blamed is like shooting a mockingbird; it’s a sin. What Scout is urging to say is that Boo did a brave thing in saving the kids even though he killed someone. Boo is still innocent he portrays a mockingbird and it would just be a sin to bring something innocent into court. The quote is not literally about mockingbirds, but makes it special. The mockingbird provides music for all to enjoy, in other words its a benign creature and innocent. Innocence really connects to the quote, there are many people in this book who are innocent and are destroyed by the evil. Harper Lee wants people to be absorbed in to the mockingbirds because the reason she included this quote was that some people are not always judged by who they really are. Tom was innocent and he was killed just because he was colored, Boo is innocent and just because of a prank he is locked up, Jem and Scout are innocent and because of their father’s courage their lives were in jeopardy. Innocence is usually hidden behind a veil of darkness.

This quote really made me open my eyes up like a newborn kitten ready to see into the fresh world. When I read this quote I had to stop because all these clicks were taking place in my head, I was starting to put two and two together. I realized that many people are like mockingbirds and they don’t stay long enough to sing their last song. There is innocence in this world that is demolished by evil. Many people lose their lives due to hatred, revenge, and racism.The survivors are usually young people, who end up being scared for life due to an incident. I myself am thankful that I live in a community where I feel safe and protected, many people don’t have this opportunity. Even though many are hurt in on the inside its our job to go and heal those wounds, because who knows when there will be a time that maybe we might need a helping hand.