Student Essay on Lessons about Life in "To Kill a Mocking Bird"

Analyzes some of the life lessons learned by the children in Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mocking Bird."

"You can shoot at all the blue jays you want, if you can hit them, but remember it's a sin to kill a mocking bird." This warning in the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is foreshadowing an innocent mans death in a small town so blinded by prejudice and hatred based on fear that the jury did not come to the right verdict, but instead, a verdict based on the fear of the African-Americans replacing the Whites in societal status. The setting in the novel is filled with so much prejudice that the children must learn to cope with as they very important lessons about life. A African-American man by the name of Tom Robinson is tried for rape and assault for a crime he did not commit; during his trial Jem,.....