To kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee uses the mockingbird theme with both Boo and Tom as examples and with fears and superstitions attached to the mockingbird and both characters.

... To kill a Mockingbird I. Harper Lee uses the mockingbird theme with both Boo and Tom as examples and with fears and superstitions attached to the mockingbird and both characters. II. A mockingbird is a small American songbird the colour of a sparrow and the size of a thrush. It gets its name from the ability it has to mimic other bird's song and weave them together to create beautiful sounds. "It don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up peoples gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". Atticus asks Jack to teach Jem and Scout to shoot, as he does not wish to himself. He tells the children that he would prefer them not to shoot birds but knows they will so to "Shoot all

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