To kill a mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee, tells the story of Scout Finch, and her brother, Jem, and their experiences of benevolence, bravery, and their loss of innocence. They learn through father, Atticus Finch, that the world isn't always fair and that prejudice exists whether they like it or not. Their adventures begin when a little boy named Dill comes to stay with his aunt during the summer. Jem and Dill become infatuated with the idea of making Boo Radley, who they've never seen come out of his home. After many unsuccessful attempts at accomplishing this feat, they finally learned that they should leave him in peace. After this experience, Atticus is appointed to defend a black man in a racist 1930's Alabama. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and later became an Award winning film. Mockingbirds sign beautiful songs for people to enjoy. Yet people mindlessly hurt and kill them although they do no harm. A few of the characters resemble blue jays. These characters are prejudiced people who do harm to society as do the blue jays in bird world. A few of the characters in the novel resemble mockingbirds hence the title of the novel.
             Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your fathers right," she said. "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 sign their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin To Kill a Mockingbird."
             The criteria in this book is used to define metaphoric mockingbirds, through people who d...