Character Analysis

There are a lot of characters that help the children though the book and even more show them right from wrong even if they don't mean to. Though most of them do it intentionally to help them grow up and learn how life is. The children also notice things on their own and learn from it or ask bout it so they can learn more. Though out the story they grow as people and get a better understanding of the world and they see it as it should be and not as it is. The children learn right from wrong though many events in the novel, but Atticus and Miss Maudie teach them specifically about how it's a sin to kill a mockingbird and to destroy innocence and a way of life for somebody who doesn't want to change. 

 One of the reasons is because Atticus told them "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"(90), then when scout asked Miss Maudie about it she explained "Mockingbirds didn't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy."(90). After Miss Maudie explained it to scout she realized that it was also a sin to destroy any innocence. That’s why she was willing to lie to cover Arthur Radley from the town when he saved them from Bob Ewell.

 Another reason is when Jem cries when Tom Robinson is convicted in the trail. He knows that tom is innocent even though the jury says he's not. For instance when Jem asks Atticus "how could they do it, how could they?"(213) Atticus says "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it-seems only the children weep."(213). That’s when Jem realizes that nothing is as it should be and that night a mans innocence was destroyed. Tom was a god fearing, law abiding citizen, until they sent him to the county jail and he tried to escape. Jem now sees the reality of the world he lives in.

 Those are the reasons that explain just what they learned from both Atticus and Miss Maudie. Scout and Jem learned that destroying innocence/ killing a mockingbird is a sin. Jem also learned that reality is not as nice as it may seem and Scout learned about sometimes it's better to cover somebody then to let their lives get ruined by one good deed. That is how the kids learn how destroying innocence is a sin from Atticus and Miss Maudie.