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Killing a mockingbird is a sin, as it has been said a few times in the book. So, what about Tom Robinson; wasn’t he a mockingbird? The story was that Tom Robinson tried to escape so they shot him, not once, but seventeen times. Now whose word could go against that? Tom was dead and the only people who had witnessed the event were criminals (who nobody would believe) and the people shooting Tom (who were probably racist anyway). Maybe Tom didn’t try to escape, maybe they just made up a tale for reasons unknown, but who would ever know? Throughout the trial, I believed Tom fit the mockingbird symbol: he didn’t do anything but sing (meaning, he only tried to help Mayella, but she took things further). This all together, the picture seems fitting because, well, it’s a dead mockingbird (thankfully without seventeen bullet holes, though). A lot is to be questioned now… Is he still a “mockingbird”? The world may never know.

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