To Kill A Mockingbird Title Analysis

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a very metaphoric book with many indistinguished significances. The three meanings of the book’s title have to do with the sinful nature of killing a songbird, the fate of racial biases, and the truth about the once feared, Boo Radley. Once identified, the signifigances clear up the understanding of the main messages to the reader. The blunt meaning of the title, blatently states why one should not kill a mockingbird. This sets the basis for the following metaphors reinstate the title’s meaning. At the beginning of the book, the kids are given rifles, along with rules by Atticus. He tells the kids what they can and can’t do and reminds them how sinful it would be to kill a songbird. “‘I know you’ll

After being falsely accused of raping a whites woman, he goes to trial and is found guilty by the jury and judge despite all of the evidence provided against it. While in jail, Tom is shot 17 times, killing him on the spot. When being asked why they shot Robinson that many times, the prison guards had claimed that Tom had been a threat to others and attempted a jail break. At first people of Maucomb assume that the stories of tom’s attempt to escape were reasonable because Tom was an African-American. It becomes apparent to Atticus that this was indeed overkill and the facts didn’t add up. In the event of a jail break, guns are used to temporarily stop the threat, and to be shot 17 times is an exorbitant amount. As well as the facts, Tom’s left arm is practically unusable because of an accident at a cotton mill throughout childhood, making the likelihood of him climbing the fence very slim. All though the author doesn’t come out and say it this leads the leader to configure that this was an act of anger and racism rather than decreasing a potential threat. This is said to be “killing a mockingbird” because Tom is just as innocent as a songbird, and has a completely harmless demeanor, yet still is murdered based on an ugly stereotype. Robinson proved himself as moral time after time but a majority of aspects are overlooked in black people during racial-bias time. When Mayella asks Tom to assist her all he wanted to do was help, and he was taken advantage of. He knew he shouldn’t even be fraternizing with a white woman, but as he said “he felt sorry for her” because she was all alone, his intentions were strictly prioritized to assisting Mayella. Throughout Robinson’s life he was faced with hardship after hardship after biases, yet he always seemed to take the high road and surmount the situation, proving his mockingbird qualities and his