2007-01-09 02:45:14 · 3 answers · asked by brock b 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
The passage in the book where they're all sitting at the dinner table explains it pretty clearly. Atticus talks about how when he was a kid, his father gave him a gun, but forbade him to kill a mockingbird, because it was a sin - it was a sin to kill something that never did anything to harm anyone, all it does was sing beautifully.
You could compare the mockingbird to Tom, the black man on trial later in the book. He never hurt anyone, all he did was help the Ewell girl, and they killed him. It was a sin.
2007-01-09 03:33:59 · answer #1 · answered by nomadgirl1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to kill a mockingbird is an old wives tale from the south meaning bad luck to kill a mocking bird, not sure if thats whats intended but i know that Harper Lee is from the south so maybe
2007-01-09 02:54:43 · answer #2 · answered by tryn4baby 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to mock you!
2007-01-09 02:51:25 · answer #3 · answered by Tina Tegarden 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋