To Kill a Mockingbird

The profound insight of Scout establishes irony. By Lee using Scout as the narrator, irony is established. Aunt Alexandra accomplishes damaging Scout's identity by attacking her behavior and manner of dress. Underwood compared Tom's killing to the killing of a mockingbird. Scout survives by rejecting her feminity. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (90). Scout is raised in a privileged environment but is confronted with prejudice. At the end of the novel after Boo Radley has saved Jem and Scout there is a discussion about whether or not Boo Radley should be prosecuted for killing Bob Ewell, and Scout says "Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it"The form of the story is a novel. Mockingbirds are first mentioned when Scout and Jem receive air rifles for Christmas; Atticus tells them to "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. The novel's tone is light because of it being told by a child but the subject matter is serious. o cope with the inequities in the world around her. Tom is a metaphor for a mockingbird because he is a faultless man who is kind enough to help Mayella Ewell with chores for free. Scout receives repeated messages, primarily from her aunt, telling her that she is falling short of her assigned feminity.