Sybolism in To Kill A mockingbird

“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” The mockingbird is a symbol used to represent what is innocent and good in a man’s heart in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Tom Robinson was an honest, decent, young man whose only flaw was one he had no control over. Tom Robinson was black. To some people in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, this may not seem like a big deal, but to the twelve men sitting on Tom’s jury, skin color was the only factor they chose to acknowledge about him. These twelve men found Tom guilty of raping Mayella Ewell, even though Atticus proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was innocent. “Atticus used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.” The purposeful racial persecution of Tom Robinson was like killing a mockingbird.
There was a house in Maycomb, Alabama that no children went nea...