Themes - Mockingbird motif..

There are several themes in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Mockingbird motif is one of the main themes that we could easily find from the book. This short phrase, "killing a mockingbird," has a serious meaning behind it. Mockingbird would be an innocent person, or a victim, who has not done anything wrong, but people dislike them and avoid them for no good reasons. There are few people representing the "mockingbirds" in this novel. Dill, friend of Jem and Scout, Tom Robinson, a person accused of raping a girl, and Arthur (Boo) Radley, which I'm going to talk about first. Boo Radley never did anything wrong, and he was even interested in Jem, Scout and Dill, and wanted to associate with them. However, people in Maycomb thought him as a malevolent person who never wanted to go outside. Another example:
" "Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but
make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in
corncirbs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why
it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." " (pg. 90)

In the book, Tom Robinson, an innocent African-American man who was accused of raping a girl named Mayella Ewell, could also be Tom Robinson. This can also be the matter of prejudice, justice versus injustice, stereotype, loss of innocence. Anyway, Tom Robinson is an innocent victim, and it seems that the Ewells are trying To Kill (accuse) a Mockingbird (Tom Robinson).