Mockingbird Figures

To Kill a Mockingbird, is a novel by Harper Lee. A six year-old girl named Scout narrates the novel. She relates the events surrounding a court case in which her father, attorney Atticus Finch, defends a black man wrongly charged for rape of a white woman. Atticus has always believed that it is wrong to kill a mockingbird because they are beautiful and harm no one. Three characters in this novel who are like the mockingbird are Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley.
Atticus Finch resembles the mockingbird because he is an all-around good person. For instance, racial tensions in Alabama skyrocketed while Atticus put his life in danger for defending a black man falsely accused for rape of a white woman. One reason he does so is that he believes,...