To Kill a Mockingbird: Significance of the Title

Significance of the title The title To dash off a mockingbird is in a way a symbol of well-nigh the entire restrain. From variance 2 on Maycomb County and its people were all engulfed in the tom Robinson rape trial. As Atticus and Miss Maudie said its a sin to kill a mockingbird and Mockingbirds dresst do cardinal thing except make music for us to enjoy. They dont eat up peoples gardens, dont nest in corn cribs, they dont do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. Thats why its a sin to kill a mockingbird. (p. 19) Tom Robinson can be seen as a mocking bird in the sense that he has never done anything to purposely hurt anyone, his besides sin was that he tried to help people out of the good-will of his heart. Setting The story takes place in Maycomb County Alabama in the 1930s. Maycomb is the usual southern townspeople, small square houses, everybody knows everybody, a feeling of hominess, only one of everything (post office, grocery store, school etc. ) Maycomb County is a bit of a particular case because it is rather far from any other towns.When Maycomb was founded it was built a very long way upstream from the ocean on a small river which was unusual back in the day considering boat was the briny mode of transportation then. Maycomb is a kind of boring uneventful town the most interesting thing to happen is what Miss Stephanie can coiffe to come up with and gossip about. The setting of Maycomb county relates to the main theme of the book in the way that Mood In the first part of to kill a mocking bird Maycomb County is portrayed as a small, mollify southern town, nothing interesting ever happens.The town has a naive, innocent, gullible and mischievous feel to it and everyone mostly keeps to themselves and you never really know more than about anyone, except for a few characters. In the second part however everything and everyone changes. Once the Tom Robinson case comes to light you can consecrate that everyone shows their true colors and who they really are deep down inside. The inclination in the air shifts from nice and quiet to harsh, dangerous and hostile, every soulfulness in Maycomb is rattled to the bone with this case it will never be the same like it was before. Everyone loses their innocents