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Symbolism In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the nineteenth century, mockingbirds were kept in cages so they could sing their beautiful music. Because of this, mockingbirds were nearly almost wiped out of parts of the East Coast. All Mockingbirds do is bring beauty to the world. Mockingbirds symbolize innocence and do not deserve to be wounded by the cruelness of the world. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Dill, Mayella Ewell, Mr. Dolphus Raymond, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are all mockingbirds. They are innocent people that have been harmed or injured in the past and have learned the misery of the world.
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This shows that colored people, such as Tom don't have equal rights and that white people, such as Bob are privileged. Mayella is forced to stay in her house and do chores and take care of her siblings since her father was too drunk to ever take care of them and their mother is dead. ¨Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty five years¨ (256 Lee). The only person she ever comes in contact with is Tom Robinson because ¨white people wouldn't have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs: Negroes wouldn't have anything to do with her because she was white¨(256 Lee). The Ewells were the lowest class of whites, they lived in a black community and had no money or education. The only people they had power over where the colored people, such as Tom Robinson. Mr. Dolphus Raymond was not actually drunk. He is innocent and just drank coca-cola from a sack to have an excuse for his actions. Mr. Raymond hangs around colored people and has several mixed children. He drinks out of the sack so that the ¨folks can say Dolphus Raymond's in the clutches of whiskey- that's why he won't change his ways. He can’t help himself, that's why he lives the way he does¨”(268 Lee). He explains to Scout that he is ¨not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand

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