To+Kill+A+Mockingbird+Essay

===="Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." This quote in Harper Lee's novel, __To Kill A Mockingbird__, focuses on social and racial prejudices. There were many people in the book, who were judged based on their color and their past, even though they didn't do any damage to anyone or anything. No matter how innocent or guilty you were for something, you would be judged by your skin color or how wealthy you were. People hate other strangers because they hear these nasty, negative stories about their past. ====

===="Our kind of folks don't like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don't like the Ewells, and the Ewells hate and despise the colored folks." Tom Robinson was an average African-American man who lived in Maycomb County. He was convicted guilty of raping Mayella Ewell, which he did not do. Bob Ewell accused him of raping his daughter, because he didn't like the fact that Mayella was desperate enough to kiss a black man. Atticus made the white jury think long and hard about Tom Robinson's case but since they were white and Tom Robinson was colored, he was convicted guilty. Later in the book he tries to escape and he was shot dead. An innocent man was dead for no reason. "Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Tom Robinson was the mockingbird because he didn't do anything bad. All he did was help people and didn't ask for anything in return. ====

====Boo Radley was an interesting character in Maycomb County. Many people thought he was some kind of monster living in the shadows. "Boo was about six and a half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were blood stained." The citizens of Maycomb think this is what Boo looks like and what his personality. Scout first believes in what everyone says about him. She thought that he really dined on cats and squirrels. Then she saw how Boo really was. He wasn't a monster. Boo was just that socially awkward child hiding in the corner. Scout is only a little kid, so she believes in whatever she hears but there are things where she has to find things out for herself and this was one thing she found out for herself. ====

===="I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep." Children only weep because they have not experienced the world enough, unlike parents and adults. The adults have been through very many tough times in their life, that they learned to expect the lowest out of the people they thought the highest of. The children are just experiencing the world. They only know what their parents have been telling them. Children are nicer and warm-hearted because they see things in a different perspective than the adults. Adults and parents are cruel and cold-hearted human beings. Most of them see everything in a strict and serious manner. Sometimes you just need to have fun and think like a child. ====

====Harper Lee's __To Kill A Mockingbird,__ teaches us how to view things differently in life. It teaches us to not judge someone "until you climb into his skin and walk around in it". Killing an innocent man is a sin like how killing a mockingbird is a sin. People shouldn't be judged on by who they are, what they do, or what they look like. If they're nice they're nice. If they're not then so be it. That's life and Harper Lee has shown that to us in a different perspective. ====