To Kill a Mockingbird question

Hi Sweekruti.

At supper with Walter Cunningham, Atticus reminisced about receiving his first gun. His father told him he could shoot at blue jays, which eat their corn, but it would be a sin to kill a mockingbird, because all they do is make music for us to enjoy.

Boo Radley is harmless, too, like a mockingbird, yet people abuse him. The same goes for Tom Robinson, for that matter.

Does that work?

Boo Radley is indeed harmless. He is a mockingbird because he mimics he games of the children in order to have some normality in his life. Tom Robinson too is kind and helpful to Maella Ewell (to his cost) because he wants to emulate what he thinks the white poulation live like. Again he is a mockingbird. Well that my O'level English Lit understanding of anyway.

Guys. The mockingbird is a symbolic representation of innocence. Yes. It is true, because, the mockingbird does not harm anyone, so killing a mockingbird is like killing innocence. Similarly, Boo Radley hasn't done anyhting wrong to make him a recluse, so he too, is like the mockingbird.