To Kill A Mocking Bird Boo Radley and Tom Robinson

In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Miss Maudie said that it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. Mrs. Maudie defines what mockingbirds are by saying that they “don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us" (90). Tom Robinson and Arthur “Boo” Radley …

…Robinson because they are different and people do not know them for who they truly are. They are treated unfairly. When Scout returns from the Radley house at the end of the novel, she tells Atticus that, "He (Boo) was real nice" (281). Atticus replies, "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them." If the attitudes of the people of Maycomb were like Atticus’s there would not be so many injustices in this novel.