cOPY OF TO KILL A MOCING BIRD
... childhood, it is also the story of the struggle for equality of the Negro families. Almost every incident in the novel adds up to something to Scout's understanding of the world. Through her experiences she grows more tolerant of others, learning how to " climb into another person's skin and walk around in it." On her first day of school she finds out that there are both social and poor classes in society, some are well thought of and others not so well thought of. She also learns that her father is an not an normal man, fighting for a Negro's rights in court it takes guts to do what others can not. At the trial of Tom Robinson Scout learns about fairness and unfairness, about honesty and wrong and finally about ethnic injustice. Many times during the course of the novel the idea of the mockingbird plays out. We first hear of the bird when the children are given there first air rifles for Christmas, There father warns them to never shoot the songbird, saying to do so would be a sin. During the trial of Tom Robinson, it occurs to the reader that the Tom has many personalities he shares with the mockingbird, He is a gentle man, who has never harmed anyone and only tried to help. His murder is as much a sin as the killing of any innocent creature. By the end of the novel we see that the loner Boo Radley is also like the mockingbird. He is shy and gentle, living quietly and harming no one. Near the end of the novel, Boo saves the children from being killed. The cop pig realizes that bringing Boo into the public eye would only be like killing the songbird. Many ...