"To Kill a Mockingbird" Character Theme

The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by the American author Harper Lee, is about how society kills innocence with evil. The setting of the book takes place in the 1950?s, where racism was a big deal to society. Throughout the novel, Lee uses a mockingbird as a analogy to the characters, which makes the title so convenient to the novel. If we were to view a bird?s world, blue jays would be viewed as the bullies. They are loud, territorial, and aggressive. The blue jays represent the prejudice ?bullies? in Maycomb and society. The mockingbird is a symbol for two of the characters in the novel: Boo (Arthur) Radley and Tom Robinson. The mockingbird symbolizes these two character because they do not have their own songs. Whereas, the blue jay is loud and obnoxious, the mockingbird only sings other birds songs. If a mockingbird does not sing its own song, we characterize it only by what the other birds sing. We see the mockingbird through the other birds. In the novel, the people o...