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There are many people who could be considered to be the 'mockingbirds' of the story:
Arthur 'Boo' Radley,
Tom Robinson,
Mayella Ewell,
even perhaps Atticus
and Dill.

Describe how we can consider each of these characters to be 'mockingbirds' and, also discuss which one of them is the strongest depiction of the 'mockingbird'. In other words, who the best representation is according to your opinion.

Don't forget to discuss and comment on a classmate's ideas as well!

Arthur "Boo" Radley: We can consider him mockingbird when we think about How the people of Maycomb talk about him and how they see him, like a mouster or a crazy boy or a phantom, Many people told their children "Boo gonna come at night to kill you" because the children are too naughty. So.. He never could leave from his house and He going to be lonely in his house.

Tom Robinson: He was the best representation of mockingbird because we can see him as a man who only did good things to help somebody and the recompense that he had is the death without reasons. So, He is Negro and only for it He was guilty for nothing.

Mayella Ewell: She was a poor victim of her father, because She with about 16 years old, she had to be the mother in the house and took care for her father, brothers and sisters. And stand when her father rape her or hit her. I think she was tired of violence and try to take cover herself in Tom who was, in my opinion, a man that treated her with respect and who help her without asking for anything.

Atticus: He can be a representation of mockingbird if we think about the lazy people who wait other do the hardwork that anybody want to do. Many people in Maycomb talked very bad about him because He was helping a Negro (an innocent person) to be free and then spat him on the face because he was doing his job legally.

Dill: He can be a mockingbird if we saw the part that mentioned that he doesn't have a father who can give him a good education, probably he had many economic problems and her mother sent him to Maycomb in the summer, maybe for He doesn't see the reality situation of his mother.

As I said before, for me the best representation is Tom Robinson, because He did one of the best things and took the worst thing.

· Arthur Radley: I really associate the Mockingbird with Arthur, because of the way the people talk about him. People just criticize him, because of what he'd done but they never indentify his qualities, what he could the best to help people.
As Liz said, people use him as a phantom or a monster to scare children, they like made a bad prototype of Arthur when he was a very good man.
· Tom Robinson: He's truly a "Mockingbird". He was an excelent "role model" of a man. He worked to hold his family, also helped people to do some little works and things like that. But what he received? A "shot" (metaphorically) when Mr. Ewell said that he raped his daughter, when it wasn't true. After all the proof that he hasn't done anything, he was killed for no reason, just as mockingbirds.
· Mayella Ewell: Also, as Liz said, Mayella was a victim of his father but also a victim of ignorance, but for me, it has an explanation. Mayella was like the mother of the children, she had to work hard to give them food while his father was drinking. But after her declarations, it shows that she wasn't only the mother but she also made the role of the wife somehow. She was beaten many times by his father, also raped but she never said anything, because she was afraid of what her father could do to her or his brothers and sisters. This is also like a mockingbird in the sight that she always worked hard and always received a "shot" (beaten, raped) by her father.
· Atticus: Well, he maybe was a representation of a mockingbird when he started to help Tom. He is a very good man, that is trying to help an innocent man of something that he hasn't done, but what people instead of support his ideas just gave him back what? "Shots", in the way that they criticize him, tell to their children that he was a bad person because he was helping a black man.
· Dill: I have to agree again with Liz here :-P. She said that Dill could be a representation of a Mockingbird because he'd never received a help nor education from a father. When you don't receive this two little but IMPORTANT things, you're forced to seek those things in society but when you do it, people just talk about you, they say why you don't seek it in your house, but they don't know what Dill was "feeling".

Also, in my oppinion, Tom Robinson is the best representation of a Mockingbird, because he had an "open heart" to people (he helped them)and he received back the death for no reason.

ARTHUR “BOO” RADLEY: is a man who did bad things in the past, but the people in the town sentenced him, they included him of the society, without know about his reasons, feelings, that he could do good things for them, we can consider him Mockingbird because as everybody he wants to live a normal life, without discrimination.

TOM ROBINSON: He is the best character to be Mockingbird, he is a clear example that a black people didn´t have opportunity and right from a white people, is really sad to know that an innocence person have to pass those kind of injustices only because he´s black, I´m sorry for him because he didn´t deserve that.
MAYELLA EWELL: She can be Mockingbird, because her personality shows that she acted bad, because she need the love of a family, she grew without a mother and did a role that isn´t her obligation, also she was manipulated by her father and her bad behavior is consequence of him, he´s a bad father because he demonstrated to his family bad examples.

ATTICUS: We can consider him a Mockingbird, on the way that he is a really good father, and lower, he did an important role that is father and mother at the same time, he educated his family with good examples ( not discriminate people for the skin, social class, etc.) I liked his personality because he inculcated to his children many values, he confronted the society, he had the duty to defend a black person, unfortunately he lost the case, but the perseverance was his strength.

DILL: he maybe a Mockingbird, because he as many children want a family, which is very important, the love of the family and the education can help everybody, his life would be better, and he can grow in happiness.

For me the best representation is TOM ROBINSON, because with his story I learned many things, he shows that in that time the conditions of the black people were difficult and they suffered a lot, the worse is the “death”, fortunately up to now the discrimination is less, but continued, I hope the people´s thinking change totally for the good of all.

BOO RADLEY OR ARTHUR RADLEY:
I can consider him as a mockingbird In the way that he maybe was like a slave of his father, because his father didn`t want him to have friends, when he tried to communicate with the children his father didn`t let him… Also because of the bad treatment of the people in the town, some of the people hate him just because he didn`t appear anymore, they considered him as a monster, a bad person who could do something bad to them if they go near his house.

MAYELLA EWELL
I can consider her as a Mockingbird in the way her father tried her, her father abuse of her innocence, her father hit her, and probably raped her… she had to support all that. I think that maybe that is one of the worst things that women could pass by. It is terrible… fortunately now there is a lot of way to prevent that kind of things.

ATTICUS AND DILL
Atticus could represent a Mockingbird in the story in the way that he only wanted to help an innocent person who was Tom Robinson and he received the hate of the people for that… he was one of the best person in the town, but the people didn’t saw that in the moment when he was defending Tom.
Dill is a boy that represented a Mockingbird in the way that he doesn`t have a good family, he suffered because of that… he just needed the love of a stable family.
TOM ROBINSON
TOM Robinson for mi was the strongest depiction of the 'mockingbird' in the story, I really feel bad of what happened to him, it was too sad because he only wanted to help a white woman who didn`t receive help of nobody in her family… that was his error to feel sorry of a woman who was alone… NOW, that always happen… not just the kill, but always you help a person with all you can because you see that it need help and then it pay you with by the worst way it can… that is our reality, unfortunately.
So, for me TOM ROBINSON was the person who represented more a mockingbird in the story.

I agree with all my classmate that commented until now, in the part they said that TOM ROBINSON is the best representation of a Mockingbird in the story.

I think that what happened to TOM was the worst thing that happened in the story, I think that maybe that marked Jem`s life, Atticus`s life and maybe Scout`s life too, because they were involved in Tom`s case as if they were part of his family and because of that Atticus and his family stayed very affected by the lost of the case and because of Tom death.

There aren't many difference between my classmates idea and my idea, so I can't disagree with them.
We think the same.. So in this case I agree with all in the BEST mockingbird representation.

Camila wrote: “she had to support all that. I think that maybe that is one of the worst things that women could pass by. It is terrible… fortunately now there is a lot of way to prevent that kind of things”.
I agree with you, I think is really sad for a woman who pass those kinds of abuses, because the woman not only is affected on the body the worst is the psychological trauma, fortunately there are help for them, but sometimes they don´t want to denounce the mistreat for many reasons, the most common “to be afraid” for the aggressor, that is Mayella´s case, she feels afraid for her father, and was manipulated by him.

Boo Radley: We can consider him a Mockingbird because the people of Maycomb talk very bad about him, telling that Boo can kill you at night and thinking that he was a monster.

Tom Robinson: I think he can be consider a Mockingbird because he was a worker man, he just helped Mayella and he was killed without any reason. As Liz said he was guilty just because he was a Negro.

Mayella Ewell: Well, she can be consider a Mocking because she was a victim of her father. Maybe her father had threatened her.
She stayed at home taking care of her brothers and sisters cooking, working and that she received in change was the the mistreatment of her father.

Atticus: He maybe can be consider a Mockingbird because he helped an inocent man, and many people didn’t agree with this.

Dill: We can consider him a Mockingbird because does not received education of his father and probably of his mother. I think the only person that really took care of him was his aunt.

Im my opinion Tom Robinson is the best representation of a Mockinbird because as I said before he was a good man who helped others persons and received in changed the death.

ARTHUR RABLEY : he is a shy boy and only that was locked for having fun and spend a little the rules lose he freedom ,and then the people put for him name a malevolent phantom.
TOM ROBINSON: he are one good man who heelp one girl was accused and killed unfairly.
MAYELLA EWELL: she are one girl who not have friend and do only what her fater said.
ATTICUS: he are one wise man who can give advicee and he only help one nigger and for that the people speak bad about he.
Dill: he are one boy who care about his friend , he is abandoned from his parents and if he not stay alone he stay with him friend in the street.
In my opinion ROBINSON is the mockingbird because he help other and receives thr death.

Camila wrote: ”Now, that always happen… not just the kill, but always you help a person with all you can because you see that it need help and then it pay you with by the worst way it can… that is our reality, unfortunately”.
I like your comment Camila, is true what you say, because some people don´t recognize your help, and sometimes the person only see you when she or he need, that is unjust because everybody can need each other one day, that happened with Tom, he offered his help but in change he received the worst.

Well, in the middle of the story, I found some items about why the book is called "To Kill a Mockingbird" and I really enjoyed when I understand, hope you enjoyed too, hahaha, well about
ARTHUR "BOO" RADLEY, He was a mockingbird, maybe because a mockingbird is too weak, that doesn't do anything, but we kill them, for example the town kill Arthur, with the comentaries and the trate too, because parents in Maycomb said to their children about, so then children called him Boo, that's so bad to taught a children, you have to said them what really happen, even they don't understand, they going to grown up with a knwoldge.
TOM ROBINSON, He was other mockingbird, because the same situation of Arthur, only because of his skin, even He was a good worker, a honeslty worker, they denigrate him because he was a black, maybe He suffer, because He didn't have the oportunity to say something, that happen with the poor mockingbirds too, They sing, and we kill them, but they can't say anything.
MAYELLA EWELL, She's other person, that can't say anything because her father, her father always dominated her, she is in his responsability, but she has a life in front, his father didn't think about, and destroy Mayella life.
ATTICUS AND DILL, they are two strong men, Atticus because He taught his children without a mother, even Calpurnia were in all moment, she's not a mother, so, He faught a lot to give the best to his children, and Dill is a boy, a child, who is strong too, that's so particularity, because He was so far of his mother, he didn't know his father, but He grow up, now, maybe with a good influence of Atticus, He would be a good man, only we have to believe.

José wrote: "Also, in my oppinion, Tom Robinson is the best representation of a Mockingbird, because he had an "open heart" to people (he helped them)and he received back the death for no reason."

Yes, José you have reason, so, now, I think is a ironic situation, because, we put in a example; "thinkers", they obviously think, practice, and promove the peace in the world, like Mahatma Ghandi, but then, He died or a person kill him(yes he was shooting for someone), so, what's the matter, something wrong happen here, that's the same situation of Tom, He fought, a lot, and He help, and He was quiet, but in a moment He feel all his faith down, and was in that time when the others play with him, and they said, oh no, Tom died,because this, and because that, but we really don't know, if He wanted to go away, or they kill him.

Karen wrote: "José wrote: "Also, in my oppinion, Tom Robinson is the best representation of a Mockingbird, because he had an "open heart" to people (he helped them)and he received back the death for no reason."
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Yes Karen you mentionated an important point, I wonder too, if Tom really wanted to run away or simply the bad persons killed him only because he is black, but the saddest was that poor Tom was sentenced and killed unjustly.

Arthur 'Boo' Radley: is one of the "central" mockingbirds, because his character creates one of the plots in the story. The people in town talked bad of him for years, when he just wanted to have friends and fun; he couldn't go out for a long time and this made him a shy and quiet man, so, if suddenly he leaves his home to face the people about Bob Ewell's death, it would be, as Scout said, to kill a mockingbird, this means here somebody who's not ready and strong enough to face the world and its cruelty against the interior kindness.

Tom Robinson: a poor Black man who felt sorry and only wanted to help a White girl without wanting anything in return. But the Whites did give something to him: death. Tom is the "biggest" mockingbird in the story, the one who contains everything that this metaphor means: somebody who does nothing but good to all.

Mayella Ewell: the "murder of the mockingbird" is a mockingbird too, because we can see that despite her deep ignorance and roughness, she's very innocent, and a victim of his father and her ignorance itself, all that leaded to Tom's accusation and, from the other side, Mayella's feelings of guilt when she discovers that her mockingbird, her innocence, has been killed.

Atticus: another man who only did but good to people (the same mockingbird as Tom), but in change, he received pain, worry, incomprehension. People tried to "kill" him, to discourage him from doing the right thing, but in this case, he survived.

Dill: this mockingbird was another ingenuous one, like Mayella, a lonely one, like Boo, and we can see that he's kind and tries to do his best, like Atticus. But what differs him from the others was his childhood and the hope that a small boy can bring to the world, and with Scout and Jem, he learned how to take care of the people and not to judge by the appearance.

The most representative mockingbird is Tom Robinson, as a innocent good man who has been killed without reason, but all others shows us that there are many other mockingbirds can shouldn't be hurted.

Well first we have Arthur 'Boo' Radley,he is like longest case we want to solve in the story I think we can call him a mockingbird because of being apart from the world, indeed he's inocent from societys evil and what he did for scout and jem was from the heart, just to help them, so all the things that he's been through are like killing a mockingbord because they were killing the soul of a pure boy. After him we got Tom Robinson, I think he's the tipycal example of the segregation of those times and how the concept of justice wasn't very clear or fair till the last decades so he were arrested, judged and killed unfairly just because of segregation and racism(It's very equal to the methaphore an inocent killed). Like attached to Tom we havr Mayella Ewell; she's the case on wich the ignorance takes everything that surrounds to the ruins, thay maybe got help from people or goverment but her family is never going to improve without culture and education so Mayella can't be blamed of her misfortunes because they were caused by the ignorance of her father and she's going to suffer it for a long time. Atticu is the man who defend his beliefs even when he is going to loose, so he lost a case that he minded a lot(and he was supposed to win) just because racism and he suffered with this. And finally we have Dill that is another common case of unhappy children that because of necessity of love he maybe makes mistakes.

Camila wrote: "BOO RADLEY OR ARTHUR RADLEY:
I can consider him as a mockingbird In the way that he maybe was like a slave of his father, because his father didn`t want him to have friends, when he tried to commu..."

"that always happen… not just the kill, but always you help a person with all you can because you see that it need help and then it pay you with by the worst way it can… that is our reality, unfortunately."

I agree with you. This is how the world is: ungrateful and even cruel with people who are generous and kind, without any logical reason.
I can't really understand why do the world takes advantage of the big heart of many people, I can't figure out the cause of this unjust behavior, I would like to realize it some day and try if this can change.

Karen wrote: "Well, in the middle of the story, I found some items about why the book is called "To Kill a Mockingbird" and I really enjoyed when I understand, hope you enjoyed too, hahaha, well about
ARTHUR "BO..."

"He didn't have the oportunity to say something, that happen with the poor mockingbirds too, They sing, and we kill them, but they can't say anything."

Many people silenciate the "mockingbirds" because knowing that they are helpless, their kindness show them their sins and how decadent are, and they can't stand this, that was what happened with Mayella; so they can't say the truth, or in this case, can't be believed. Because everybody knew that Tom was right, but he was black. There are many mockingbirds who suffered because of this.

In my opinion all of them are the best example depending on wich of this -like I wrote- common examples of society problems you watched or lived and you are more suceptible to this

I disagree with Elina, well actually I think she just described that characters

Well... I think Atticus was a kind of mockingbird because as it said in the story, he was used by the society to do what nobody else wanted to do. He's a good man who tries to do his best to be an example for his children, he doesn't hurt anybody, but he was used to try defend a black man who -in that period- just have a few chances to win the case and be free.

Dill, by his side, was like one of those birds because, even without doing anything to anybody he was rejected by his "family" (if we can call it a family), for a child it may feel really bad. As who he is, a child, he wants attention and people to be affectionate with him, especially his mother and the ones who always should be around him.

Mayella Ewell is our female representation of being a mockingbird... As Tom said in the story, I feel sorry for her; poor girl. I can't imagine (and I hope you feel the same) how the life would be without my friends. I think they have an especial role in our lives... Mayella, with her age, has to act as a mother of her brothers and sisters, and also she's taken as a wife by his father who doesn't move anything to lift his family situation. She's a mockingbird because she isn't free as she should, she can't sing to make feel better hearts, even hers.

Tom Robinson, the guilty Tom is also a mockingbird, sadly he was killed. It is ironic how the fact of helping can lead to a really unfair situation, we can't imagine what is in the back of the things, in some persons the feeling of support is so big that they don't pay attention to the bad intentions of the helped people. He fell into a kind of trap and because of that he had to pay the price, also his family and the cost was his life. He's probably the best representation but I don't think so.

The last one: Arthur 'Boo' Radley is who I think is the best representation of a mockingbird, even being a white man in that period he was excluded by his own community only because of the prejudices around his name, his father in the attempt of protect his son, made him a misfit who will probably never overcome his situation and face the town. For me, the man who was taken as a monster is the best representation.

José Torres wrote: Arthur Radley: they like made a bad prototype of Arthur when he was a very good man.

I agree with this José, it seems his community didn't have another thing to do, it happens a lot even now, the society -or some groups within this- like to make prototypes to hide their own details which are wrong.

Tom Robinson: he was killed for no reason, just as mockingbirds.

"For no reason", good point, that's the saddest part of the story, the innocent death, but somehow the death is the only thing that let us understand facts of life. I wonder what would have happened if Tom wasn't killed in the story, Had the story had the same impact?


Rebecca wrote: Mayella Ewell: the "murder of the mockingbird" is a mockingbird too.

I didn't imagine that this expression could be conceived and I find it interesting, it demonstrates how we can kill the people of our side, the ones who are like us or even ourselves, it isn't a new thing in world, it continues happening. Simply we live in a world where we're right and wrong at the same time, we should think more in our ways...

 IN MY opinion to considered arthur:" Bob Radley" can be the true Mockingbird, because he didn't do nothing bad , he only paid a consequence of a mischevious act, and that's normal children do and his father aplied a very strong punishment to him, maybe he became a slave in that moment because he was living in completely restriction of his liberty, he lose the happines and enjoy his chilhood, and he became a play of children, because he doesn't appear very often, but in one of his appearances in correct moment he save two children's life and in that process he kill a man, and when the people think he has or hasn't take the responsability start the problem , because he doesn't have a nice life and in one of his appearances sent him to the jail or maybe he became a hero in Maycomb and confront people questions can destroy him because it can very strong situation to him.
Tom Robinson: we can consider him, how a mockingbird , because he's a simple man, who try to survive working to help his family, he's a gentleman who try to help a woman , who said she was needing, but he didn't know her real intention and he can fall down in a cheat act, and he a victim of racism present in the justice, and he doesn't has a lot of hope , because he's negro, and he's no very important to some in the society in that moment, he paid his gentleman act with his life, because" supposedly he try to escape and really their intention if kill him, to don't matter him , with a new judgment , but he can wait for the second oportunity , and they kill him that is kill mockingbird,
Mayella Ewell: she's a mockingbird in the way of , she doesn't grown up with her mother, she lives in poor conditions , she doesn't have the oportunity to access to the education, she's ignorant who was suffering her father sexual harassment and do the role of daughter,mother and woman...! she doesn't has friends, she was abnormal woman to her age. she's a victim of ignorance and poverty.
Atticus: well, he's a good father, person and lawyer, who try to give the better to his sons, and give his contributions to the society, and he's valiant man who to continuos with his family without her wife, and think he love so much his sons, and that is his evil point when someone can be attack him, and that is the best thing to do to him is attack his sons, and he's reliable person who try to do his work, and paid the consequence with his family, lose the security, the peace , has a lot preocupation and live in his mind with somenone is innocent and died with a guilty declaration, and you can't do nothing , that's a big interruption of your normal life , kill your ideas, plan and hurt his son , that's is some of reasons with can considered him how a mockingbird.
Dill: We can considered him, how mockingbird , but with a few posibilities to win that position, because he's a liar children, who like play with jem and Scout, he's smart becuase he invented a good story, but he pass a lot time with his aunt, and that's is no good , because the parents have to accompany their sons growth. maybe he's a victim of a irresponsible father who kill the children dream is stay , share with his family, and is dangerous , when you no pay attention, and your son grow alone, he can do or understand, or wrong with something in the life and he need you, in that point of view , I see Dill

rocio wrote: but he was used to try defend a black man who -in that period- just have a few chances to win the case and be free.
I like, the phrase, but why you said he was used. you considered him a object who was used in that form , in that moment, because I think Atticus is good enought to accept the case ans defend someone, he realiable , he doesn't permit others manipulate him, he always act with the true.
kenia wrote: And finally we have Dill that is another common case of unhappy children that because of necessity of love he maybe makes mistakes.
I LIKE, YOUR ideas kenia, I agree with you in some part, maybe it can be true, but maybe he doesn't paid a lot of attention to do something, he's children is normal see them very active and always try to stay active, and they don't matter with the details because he is children of has difficulty with the development of his personal skills. or he's a special boy we have a lot of reason, to considered.
Camila wrote: "BOO RADLEY OR ARTHUR RADLEY
the mockingbird , In particular I considered Bob radley, because lose your identification and became a play and lose a lot of time of your life in nothing productive, and spent for years times in your house, maybe your don't have perspective, your dream, imagination etc. died, because you can considered you are in the jail.

Arthur 'Boo' Radley: it can be considered that suffered the greatest discrimination by society without knowing what was really going on with the, often did not understand because he behaved that way but in the end we were surprised that was a good man and also saved the lives of children we should't criticize people by appearances or rumors!
Tom Robinson: racism was part of the time, he was accused of rape but was innocent, he made ​​the blame for the simple fact that he was black he could not fight for their rights, and killed him unjustly! as always the innocent must pay for the real culprits
Mayella Ewell: represents the ignorant people, I was afraid to report what really happened in his life before the law was manipulated by her father and played a major role in the family she cared for her brothers, but was suffering a depression with in perhaps by solitude
Atticus: wise and persevering, people criticized the fact defending a black, taught their children values. he never gave up on life and was always willing to help others regardless of the criticism of society
Dill. Man fights alone in life, requires the presence of their parents who can guide and teach,people make fun of the perhaps because of their ignorance, had no chance as the other children had

Aticus it's for me it was because I taught there to pay attention to other people who disagree with what we think there to fight for our dreams and ideals, and to persevere and defeat is part of our lives..

rebecca wrote :
Scout said, to kill a mockingbird, this means here somebody who's not ready and strong enough to face the world and its cruelty against the interior kindness.
maybe that was why he hid and didn't want to go out into society but honestly it was a rare and good man

rocio said:

how the life would be without my friends. I think they have an especial role in our lives

Mayella had no friends, did not enjoy his life he felt alone .
I believe that friends play a very important function, they help us in good times and bad times and are able to lift our Animos when we need
I think Tom wanted to be her friend and she took advantage

camila wrote:
NOW, that always happen… not just the kill, but always you help a person with all you can because you see that it need help and then it pay you with by the worst way it can… that is our reality, unfortunately.

Many times people do not value what you do for her, only criticize or do something worse
Eventually they realize that they acted badly and sometimes it is too late for that hurt the feelings
We must act with conscience

Arthur 'Boo' Radley: I think he’s the best person to represent this word. Nobody talk him however, everybody were afraid. I can't say if he was evil or something like that, but the way people judge him makes everybody be away of him. I can't put the blame on his family but they can have it.

Tom Robinson: he's a victim of white people, but not of all. Atticus helped him. Only because he is black he will be guilty. He just want to help, but I remember that expression '' Always a good person pay for the sinners''. Maybe he is the victim directly of mayella's father, and of the city folk.

Mayella Ewell: she's also victim, she is a girl who's scared. She can be mockingbird as a victim.. I thinks she's so because her father treats her bad, I mean, mistreats her; he maybe hits her, and does something more.. That´s sad because we don't know what more bad things he makes her. She looks as she is scared of the life, she depends of her father; doesn't have protection, doesn't have a mother to talk her, no friends, nothing! Has a poor life.

Atticus: well, he is a good man, a good father and excellent lawyer. He can be a type of mockingbird that gives happines, indirectly because he treats change the person's mind; is an educated person who treats everybody equal, in the same way but the folk doesn't like him because of that.

Dill: he's a small mockingbird. I'm sorry for him. I see he need something; stable parents. He always lying to his friends, but he's not a bad child. He is just that , a child who need the love of someone, who can give the attention. He is a victim as Mayella, in the way that he hasn't a good family, he has been rejected by them.

Jose said: I really associate the Mockingbird with Arthur, because of the way the people talk about him. People just criticize him, because of what he'd done but they never indentify his qualities, what he could the best to help people.
Yes, youre right. Nobody could see he can do something good, he doesn't have the opportunity to show how he really is. Maybe he was so shy he wanted to stay in home. Or he was afraid, because people act strange, maybe mocking him because he was like a monster as liz said.

Camila said: I can consider him as a mockingbird In the way that he maybe was like a slave of his father'' Yes camila, I think he lived in houes many years because of his father, who has him as in a jail. But I think children had a very important role; thanks to Jem and Scout; Arthur could go out, they become friends. Maybe, a new life started for him.

jose said: he was killed for no reason, just as mockingbirds.'' He said that about Tom, but I think there's a reason. The reason is that he is a good person. He wants the best, but receives another thing.
camila said : It is terrible… fortunately now there is a lot of way to prevent that kind of things.'' You're talking about mayella, but I can't understand you. I think it couldn't be easy to erase what happened. If someone is raped , being man or women because happens to anyone, you'll live with that, wouldn't be easy to forget. Is a delicated issue to talk.
But I said, for me Arthur is the best representation. He was rejected by people, no one could see the best part he can be. Maybe the thing that leads me to choose him is that he was the main character of the book, as I saw, clear.

* Arthur 'Boo' Radley: He's rejected by his neighbors, maybe because he has different story at home, with his parents, so all people know him like a ghost and they judged him every moment.
I learn a lot of him, that we have to know the people before we judge and say anything about he or she !
* Tom Robinson: He's a really mockingbird of the story, he was a good man, and always try to help not only Mayella, he try to help everyone who need. And he was killed for a crime which he didn't does.
* Atticus: He was an exelent father and worker. He only does he work, and in very much moments he was judged by the society, he help everyone he doesn't discriminate to the persons by her/him appearance.He's an example for any one!
* Mayella Ewell: She was abused and dominated by her father all of her lifes, and because that other persons were punished in vain.
* Dill: He demonstrated that he need an affection of one father, more when he saw the good relationship of Jem and Scout with their father.




Well, I think Atticus represent better than the others, because he demonstrated that not matter what the society said about him and Tom, he help him, and I liked so much his role of father, he loves his family, and does all for give the best for Jem and Scout, and how I said before he can be like a EXAMPLE for us. :)

Liz wrote: Mayella Ewell: She was a poor victim of her father, because She with about 16 years old, she had to be the mother in the house and took care for her father, ..."

So,I agree with you!
I HATE A LOT THAT TYPE OF MAN,and she's a really poor victim, I was thinking, if he was crazy for have a sexual relations, why he didn't get a married again with another woman?
And she isn't a slave of him, so she can't does all of thing that he want.

Kenia wrote: "Tom Robinson, I think he's the tipycal example of the segregation of those times and how the concept of justice wasn't very clear or fair till the last decades so he were arrested, judged and killed unfairly just because of segregation and racism..."

Maybe the court knew that he was inocent, but like you said the racism is a bigest problem until now too, and he was a victim of that, only because he was a black man always he and his family was judged by the society, and it's so bad what happen with him, that he was killed by the fault of Mayella's father