To Kill A Mockingbird has numerious themes but the one theme that stands out to me is cruelty and segregation. The title To Kill A Mockingbird means that you shouldn't attack those who are innocent and can't defend themselvs, and the book shows countless events in which innocent people are attacked. Dill feels like his family is better off without him, and he just feels like he's in the way. Dill feels this way because his parents act like they have better things to do then be with him, so he runs away to keep him self from getting hurt. Boo Radley is also another Mockingbird. All of the events that took place in his life drove him crazy, he didn't ask for what happened for him, but the people of Maycomb destoryed him and took away his innocence, which caused him to go crazy.
Two mockingbirds that are formed in the later chapters are Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson. Mayella Ewell is a mockingbirdll because of what her father did to her. She had to lie under oath beacause her father scared and beat her for being in love with Mr. Robinson. When Mayella says, "that nigger yonder took advantage of me," she was just trying to make her father happy even if she destroys her slef in the long run. The last major mockingbird in the story so far is Tom Robinson. Just because Tom is a black man everyone assumes that he did rape Mayella, and Tom didn't do it. During this just because he was a man of color he was going to lose. Anyone could have just made up a case and Tom would have been condemed anyways. All in all, this book has many themes, but the themes that stood out to me the most were cruelty and sugergation.
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I think that you are right when you said that Tom Robinson was like a mocking bird and so was Mayella. Like you said about mayellas father probably forcing her to say that so that he wouldn't get in trouble for beating her.
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