To Kill A Mockingbird Analysis

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, the main theme is that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This metaphor of not killing mockingbird is clearly portrayed throughout the course of this novel. This theme is so important to the plot of this novel that the author decided to entitle the book after this very metaphor. Mockingbirds are birds that do not do anything wrong and they just give us music. Atticus is the main character in the novel that really stressed why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Mockingbirds are just a simple metaphor for the characters in this book who are killed, such as Mr. Raymond and Tom Robinson.
One of many mockingbirds in this novel is Mr. Dolphus Raymond. He is just an innocent man with a lot of made up reputations for him by the society. Mr. Raymond is a wealthy white man who lives with a black mistress and mulatto children. Many people have made a reputation that he drinks Alcohol out of his paper bag. In the novel he says,” Secretly, Miss Finch, I'm not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live” (Lee 337-338). He says this because he does not care what other people in Maycomb think about him. Also, Mr. Raymond says, “Cry about the …show more content…
Atticus says,“Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open” (Lee 461). He is saying that telling the truth it the best way to have a clear conscience. That quote aligns exactly with the ideals of being a mockingbird. It is a sin to kill mockingbird and the characters in the novel, Tom robinson and Mr. Raymond, have a clear conscience and have been killed either literally or metaphorically. The book ,To Kill a Mockingbird, has many life lessons in it, but the most important one is it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. That is telling us that we need to treat everyone the same and with the respect the