To Kill a Mockingbird
To kill a Mockingbird 1. ... On the suggestion of her editor, Lee developed one of her short stories into her only novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, published in 1960. ... Jem, Scout and Dill go downtown to check on Atticus and arrive at the same time as a group of men, who have come to kill Tom. ... Bob Ewell, seeing an opportunity to get revenge on Atticus through his children, follows the two kids down a dark street and tries to kill them. ... Mockingbird: The mockingbird represents innocence. Like hunters who kill mockingbirds for sport, people kill innocence, or other people who are innocent, without thinking about what they are doing. ... The mockingbird motif arises four times during the book. First, when Atticus gives Jem and Scout air guns for Christmas and instructs them not to kill mockingbirds. ... The third time when a mockingbird sings right before Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout. Finally, Scout agrees with Atticus that prosecuting Boo for Ewells murder would be like killing a mockingbird.