To Kill a Mockingbird Theme Analysis

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Abhishek Gupta To Kill a Mockingbird Essay “To kill a mocking bird” is one of the few books that have the theme incorporated in its title. The obvious theme of the novel is “to kill a mockingbird”. This theme is the most significant aspect of the novel. Throughout the book we get many indications and suggestions of its existence. The theme derives from the age-old idiom: “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”. Two characters of this book directly represent the ‘mockingbirds’ of this idiom. These two characters are none other than Arthur “Boo” Radley and Tom Robinson. They are mockingbirds because of very dissimilar reasons. The composition that follows seeks to analyze these two characters and describe their fates.           Arthur (Boo) Radley was the first mockingbird that we came across in the book. The information that we receive about him is mainly through secondary resources. Therefore, it is very hard to distinguish between fact and fiction. In part one, the book contains vivid descriptions of
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Boo Radley. All of these descriptions are inaccurate and erroneous. In the first chapter he is called a “malevolent phantom” (Lee 8). He is also often described as a “ghost”; one example of this is on page 11. Such expressions are seldom used to portray human beings which indicate that there are a host of imaginary talks going on about him.  We are also told he has a “head like a skull”, and he “leaves tracks in the backyard during the night” (Lee 13). He also “drove scissors into his parent’s leg” for no reason whatsoever (Lee 11). He is ...

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