To Kill A Mockingbird
...se he is black and she is white, Tom is found guilty of this crime. While out in the exercise yard of a type of prison camp that he was sent to, Tom took off in a dead run toward the fence and began to climb over it to escape. The guards shot him; seventeen times they shot him, and killed him. Most of the town heard about the event and quickly dismissed it from their minds, accepting it as typical. But not everyone did. Mr. Bob Underwood, the writer of The Maycomb Tribune, saw what they did to Tom Robinson as a sin. “Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He liked Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children.”(241) Mr. Underwood was absolutely right, it was a sin to kill Tom because he, like a mockingbird, had never harmed anyone and did nothing but try to please people. Boo Radley is the neighbor of the main characters of the novel. There are many rumors about him because he is never seen leaving the house and is thought to be mentally unstable. Jem, Scout, and Dill, three neighborhood children (and main characters in the book) are fascinated by Boo. They receive gifts from him in a knothole in a tree in his from yard until it is cemented in and form a sort of bond with him. One night, while on their way home from a Halloween party at school, Jem and Scout are jumped by an inebriated Mr. Bob Ewell who tries to kill them. But, Boo, who is always watching the children, sees what’s happening and saves them by killing Bob with a kitchen knife. When Jem and Scout’s father, Atticus, and the Sheriff, Heck Tate, find out that Boo killed Bob, they decide to report his death as self-inflicted sayi...