There are many unfair aspects of life. Being condemned by naive children because of rumors is one of them. Harper Lee in To Kill A Mockingbird, which takes place in small-town Alabama during the Great Depression, shows the reader one person who symbolically represents a mockingbird. Boo (Arthur) Radley is the real mockingbird, as he doesn’t have his own voice in society, is ‘shot’ at by the children and protected by some of the adults, and is a kind, misunderstood soul that has done nothing wrong.
One reason why Arthur is the figurative mockingbird is that he doesn’t sing his own song, and doesn’t have his own voice. Mockingbirds mimic other birds, they don’t have their own song. They also can get confused and uncertain when made to act on
