He did try to escape the jail but the fact that he was shot 17 times just shows how much hatred there was towards negroes at that time period. The 17 shots was out of hand. Not only was Tom’s innocence completely lost, but it affected his family greatly as well. After Tom’s death, Bob Ewell harasses Tom’s wife trying to intimidate her into not going to work, and not passing by his house on her walk. Mr. Underwood “likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children.”
In ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, Tom Robinson symbolizes a mockingbird. Throughout the whole book, his innocence is lost greatly because of the trial, his race, and eventually his death. Mockingbirds never cause any harm and only make beautiful music for people to enjoy, and killing a mockingbird is nothing but a sin. Tom never did any harm, all he did was go out of his way to help Mayella. His death is just like killing a mockingbird. Tom is a good man who is killed for his kindness just because his skin is