To Kill A Mockingbird Characteristics

In the To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are many characters who exhibit characteristics of a ¨mockingbird¨. The characteristics of a mockingbird can be viewed from various points of view of the reader. The traits I saw for a character to be a mockingbird are that they must show signs of responsibility and will take action against the beliefs of the other citizens of Maycomb, Alabama. The characters that most show the characteristics of a mockingbird are Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Jem Finch. These characters are representations of a mockingbird because they put their beliefs in use to protect others in the town or themselves from the town. Each individual shows their own way of seeing the world around them. Atticus Finch is a representation of a mockingbird because he chooses to defend Tom Robinson in his case against Mayella Ewell. At points Atticus and his children’s lives
Like everyone, Tom’s story has two sides when it comes to the day he “raped” Mayella Ewell. His side of the dispute states that Mayella tried to rape him. In his case the one sentence that made the jury members think twice is “ Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em” (Lee 19.264). In this period of time, racism was still widely accepted in the south. It was not acceptable for a black man or woman to feel sorry for a white man or woman. It was accepted that a white person was the highest class in the south. Eventually, Tom makes the decision instead of going to prison, he will try to run from the officers escorting him to jail, and in doing this one of the officers ends up shooting and kill him. Tom was able to escape easily, in the novel’s setting most cars had no doors, or they were a horse and carriage. To think that this all started when Mayella first asked him to come into the fence and chop up a chiffarobe for her. Tom was only trying to help somebody out who asked