To Kill A Mockingbird Title Analysis

The title of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” is very significant to the novel. It portrays many traits of a mockingbird through different characters. Throughout the novel we see that Boo Radley and Tom Robinson possess these traits, as they both are kind hearted but have accusations put upon them.

The name of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” is very significant. The main reason being that it is wrong to take innocence. As miss Maudie, from the novel, said, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” In this novel there are many times in which innocence has been taken from people even though they did not do anything wrong. Which would closely relate to the traits of a mocking bird.

He was an innocent man that didn’t do anything but nice things for people. All he was trying to do was help out a woman who he felt bad for. Just as a mockingbird. All mocking birds do is chirp and sing songs for people to make them feel better (as miss Maudie says). Innocent. Innocent creatures such as Tom Robinson. He was then accused of rape, and a crime he did not commit. Atticus states "Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember, it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." The blue jay being Bob Ewell and how he didn't get caught for the crime he most definitely committed; which of course was him beating his daughter. Atticus’s quote is basically saying “Take all the guilty people you want, but don’t kill the innocent ones, they don’t deserve to be