What Does Tom Symbolize In To Kill A Mockingbird

I realize Harper Lee titled the novel To kill A Mockingbird because killing a mockingbird was a supposed mortal sin because it did nothing harmful but brought joy and gave people something without anything in return, it gave it's beautiful music that brings happiness to all. Reworded the title is to kill a peaceful soul as in Tom Robinson. Tom was helping Mayella and getting nothing back, not saying that he expected something but just because he was doing it out of the kindness of his heart, much like a mockingbird. Tom is symbolized by a mocking bird because he is a very peaceful character. Throughout the story he is accused of all of these awful things that I do not believe he did. They were being prejudice against him and all that he set
If I had to pick one element i didn't appreciate it would probably be that sometimes in the book it would use the “N” word. I do understand that it was frequently said back in the time the story took place but I really don’t like when people say it in general because it seems kinda like when people were saying it back when it was used to keep colored people under the white and there is no need to use it whatsoever, even between the black culture, and it may just be a personal preference but I don’t really seem it to be a crucial necessity to the story. One element I appreciate is how Harper stayed truthful to a character's personality, for example, Atticus was portrayed as someone who was wise and knew what the right thing was to do in all situations, granted when his sister came he was persuaded to do otherwise but that's how people are and I really liked how she added that realness to the characters and eventually Atticus realize what he was doing and went back to being himself and I think that was a great factor to have in the