To Kill A Mockingbird Symbolism
To Kill a Mockingbird’s title has very little connection to the plot, but it does have a plethora of symbolic meaning during the book. A “mockingbird” eventually comes out to mean the idea of innocent. As a result, to destroy innocence is to kill a mockingbird. Some characters that are classified as mockingbirds are Tom Robinson, Dill, Jem, Mr. Raymond, and Boo Radley. Mockingbirds are identified as innocent people or beings who have been hurt through a contact among a source regarding evil. This has been proven heaps of times during the book. After Tom Robinson is shot, Mr. Underwood compares Tom’s death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds,” and towards the deadline of the book, Scout believes that hurting Boo Radley would be like “shootin’