It was Atticus Finch who said, “It’s not okay to hate anybody.” (p271) In Harper Lee’s Novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, the main issue that is dealt with is of people blindly hating and persecuting any individual or race that was different to the majority. Harper Lee tries to show the reader how life was back in the 1920’s and 30’s for these individuals and races. To do this she brings in two characters that play as the victims of the time: Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. Boo Radley was an individual who spent his life purely indoors away from all human contact, because of this he was hated and persecuted. Tom Robinson was a Black Man or a “Nigger”, and just simply because of this he was hated and persecuted. These two characters personify the statement that “It’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.” “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up peoples gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird.” (p99 - 100)
Tom Robinson was the main victim of the novel. Almost the entire majority was against him. And why? Because he was a Black man. “ Niggers” or Negroes were the scum of the universe. Maycomb wa
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He was much more of a human being than Mr Ewell, who spent the majority of his life bind drunk anyway. But by the time the book is set Boo is said to be somewhere well into his thirty’s and hadn’t been seen for a least the last fifteen years. Boo Radley’s role extends upon the statement that “It’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird”. The majority took any chance they had to take advantage of Tom. His parents thought it would be the best thing for him after he had started to mix with a couple of other local youths. But most of all he had given Jem and Scout many a present over the period of the book including their own lives! But still that doesn’t matter, he was also different from the majority and therefore he should be persecuted. ” (p276)
Amongst all of the townspeople’s loath against Tom of how bad and terrible all “Niggers” were, Tom was a nice, polite person throughout the trial. Both Tom and Boo were thought to me a menace to society but they never actually hurt anybody. Even though many a person was known to detest him, none of the rumours were ever proven true. When compared to the white people he was up against in court (Mr Ewell), Tom was much more humane. What the majority did to Boo and Tom was a sin; it was a terrible sin.
Harper Lee’s personification of the statement “It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” by simply using the two characters, is brilliant. In fact Tom was always a nice and polite person. They were both innocent and were shot down or “killed” by society for no real reason.
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