To+Kill+a+Mockingbird

A story that tells you it is a sin to kill a mocking bird. In the novel “__To Kill a Mockingbird__” by Harper Lee talks about all the prejudice and injustice things that went on in a small town in the South. There are many things you can learn from this book most of them I will tell you later. Also this book shows you the relationships between everyone in the town. There are some good and some not so good. An innocent man was convicted of rape and killed for no real reason. His name was Tom Robinson. He was a kind gentle African American man. Even though he was nice he still was convicted for rape because a woman named Mayella Ewell said he raped her. After the court talked to Mayella and her dad Mr. Bob Ewell both said he raped her and when it was Tom’s turn he said all he was trying to do was help her. Even though everyone knew Tom Robinson was innocent they still convicted him with the crime of Mayella Ewell because of the color of his skin. The reality that Tom his self-had admitted was “ she reached up on’ kissed me’ side of my face. She says she never kissed a grown man before an’ she might as well kiss a nigger. She says, ‘kiss me back, nigger.’ I say Miss Mayella lemme outa here an’ I’da had to push her. I didn’t wanta harm her, Mr. Finch an’ I say lemme pass, but just when I say it Mr. Ewell yonder hollered through th’ window.”(194) the worst part is after convicting him and taking him to jail, he breaks free and starts running and climbing the wall. Then they began shooting at him until they finally got him and then that was the end of Tom Robinson as we know it. One innocent life taken for something he never did and for the fault of another man. People say it is a sin to kill a mockingbird and Tom Robinson was a mockingbird in our point of view. Another man that lives in the shadows, a man that stays locked in his house all day, also a man who puts soap dolls, a broken watch and chain in a hole in the tree. This man is known as Boo Radley. Everyone say he comes out at night and looks into the people’s windows, six feet tall, and eats squirrels. There is only one person who really wants to see him no matter what. That person is a little girl named Jean Louise Finch who is also known as Scout. Every day she would walk by the Radley house hoping to see Boo. Then one day her and her brother Jem two soap dolls and a watch with a broken chain in the hole in the tree in front of the Radley House. They knew it had to have been Boo. Then every day after school they would be looking for him for about a year and then after the trial for Tom Robinson Scout was in a Halloween play for school. After it had ended her and her brother began walking home and then he heard a noise and then he heard it again so she began thinking it was one of the boys she goes to school with named Cecil Jacobs trying to scare them. Although it turned out that it was not Cecil and the sounds began getting closer. Then they started walking until the sound came so close that all of a sudden someone had grabbed Jem. Then the person that grabbed Jem began trying to grab Scout until another person behind them came up and pulled them off of her. After she got up off the ground she turned and saw a man taking Jem to Atticus. Then Scout began running after them to get to Atticus. After she walked to see her brother she saw a man in the corner who she thought was the one who carried Jem to Atticus. She believed the man in the corner was the man she had been searching to find and that is Boo. “Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives.” (278) Boo Radley is the mockingbird who risked his life to save the life’s of two children he never even knew and did not mean any harm to the people in the town because all he really is was a shy and gentle person. Although people think he is a freaky weirdo because they think he had stabbed his dad in the leg when he was younger so he has been locked up in his house since he was at the age of fifteen or sixteen years old and now one has seen him until the day he had saved Jem and Scouts life. Throughout the story the children’s and adult’s concepts are completely different. After the trial for Tom Robinson the only people who had cried was Jem and Scout. The adults on the other hand did not even give off not a single tear. Something I had noticed was that throughout the story I realized that the kids see justice clearer then the adults do. I guess that at the trial they expect things to go as they did. They did not think that adults could commit such cruelty towards an innocent man. “Because you and your children can understand it. things haven’t caught up with that one’s instinct yet. Let him get a little bit older and he won’t get sick and cry. Maybe things’ll strike him as being – not quite right, say but he won’t cry, not when he gets a few years on him.”(201)I guess what they were trying to say is that when you get a little bit older you will be more mature enough to handle tough situations.