To kill a Mockingbird ( quotes )?

Question

We are doing a 5 paragraph paper on To Kill a Mockingbird, relating the characters to Mockingbirds. the chacters we have to use are Atticus, Tom, and boo Radley + why they are related to the sang "its a sin to kill a mockingbird". Ive got atticus finished but I need to find 3 quotes that show Tom Robinson is reelated to a mockingbird.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! : )

Sparknotes, cliff notes, bookrags, ect dont help much, they summarize the book, and rarely give any qutoes... already looked, they give like 1 outa the 3 im looking for : )


and... you prolly shouldnt kill a mockingbird

Answer 1

i don't remember any special quotes, but there is one good site that you don't have in your list and that site is one of the sites that i strongly suggest you to try for looking up aspects in literature...

"Tom Robinson

Tom is a young, harmless, innocent, hardworking black. As Scout realizes, he would have been a fine specimen, but for his left hand, which had been injured in an accident. Tom was married, with three children and worked for Mr. Link Deas in his farm.

The only mistake he made was that he took pity on Mayella and often helped her by doing small household chores for her. He pitied Mayella for her deplorable condition and so helped her whenever possible. But the racial prejudices in Maycomb county are still too dominant for this concern to be outweighed, and so Tom lost.

Tom’s courtesy and innate goodness is revealed during the court scene, when he refuses at first to repeat the foul language used by Bob Ewell. He never openly accuses Mayella of lying, he just feels that she must be "mistaken in her mind". All this endears him to the reader and his eventual death brings about a profound sense of sorrow and despair at the injustice prevalent in the society.






The Black Community

By including the black community in her novel, Harper Lee has very effectively revealed the striking differences between the two communities: the white and the black. Her main reason in writing about this community is of course to portray the outright oppressive manner in which the blacks were treated during those times. Her book is a bid to the readers to acknowledge the respect and regard due to this section of society.

Atticus’ interest in this society is seen in almost every aspect of his life. His housekeeper is a black and he has utmost faith in her to raise the children in the right way. Atticus never fails to support their cause whenever the need arises. Tom Robinson’s case is the best example of Atticus’ attitude towards the blacks. It is a case no lawyer would have touched. Atticus takes it up, knowing full well the futility of it. His main concern is showing sympathy towards them any not leaving any stone unturned in bettering their lot.

The blacks in this novel are portrayed as better individuals than the whites. They are honest folk, always maintaining cleanliness, who do any work to eke out a living. This is so unlike the Ewells who though white (are called ‘white trash’) and are dirty, lazy, good-for-nothing people who have never done a day’s hard work.

Even the African tribe which Mrs. Merriweather speaks of reveals a sense of warmth and familial feeling amongst them, which is truly lacking in the whites.

The whites always draw away from the blacks and even speak badly about them, but when Scout and Jem visit the church with Calpurnia, they are treated with respect and are not jeered by the blacks. Calpurnia herself has always treated the children like her own, and has instilled worthy values in them.

Through the court scenes, the reader realizes that Tom had treated Mayella with respect, and had actually felt sorry for her plight. Yet he is wrongly convicted and has to pay for a crime which he never committed. As Atticus points out in his final speech the white have always assumed that "All Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all ***** women are not to be trusted around our men." The truth, he insists, is that there "is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman with desire."

Harper Lee has thus depicted a race which has always been looked down upon, because of their color, and she has tried to mitigate such feelings of racial hatred and prejudice in the reader." this is a character analysis from the site www.pinkmonkey.com (the site that i mentioned above)

moreover, my personal memoirs are:
- mockingbirds are innocent birds, whereas bluejays are the bad ones ("shoot all the bluejays if you can, but it is a sin to kill a mockingbird" -- thats the quote (approximately from memory) by atticus)
- tom is innocent and wrongly convicted, hence he is related to the mockingbird.
- mockingbird and bluejays are in the same 'community'. the mockingbird is a black bird, hence tom being a black man himself is related to the mockingbird. hence the mockingbirds are generally the blacks living in the community and the bluejays are the whites, generally speaking.


its not a lot, but i hope it helps...remembering that my tkam essays never got good grades, but i had the good points...=/ hope you do better than me...well, definately!

Answer 2

tom robinso is related to a mocking bird because he never did anything to hurt, anoy, or anything to anyvody else so there was no reason for him to die in the book. not alot but i think u can add to it if u look through the book.

Answer 3

i don't want to kill it

Answer 4

sparknotes.com
cliffnotes.com


but dont cheat.
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