The mockingbird in To Kill A Mockingbird symbolizes any person who is damaged or injured by evil or cruelty, resulting in a loss of innocence, an understanding of the brutal world, or even physical injury or death.
During Tom Robinson's trial, the reader begins to see how Dill is a symbolic mockingbird. Specifically, after the cruel cross-examination by Mr. Gilmer, Dill reveals this side of himself. He and Scout go outside where Dill compares Mr....
The mockingbird in To Kill A Mockingbird symbolizes any person who is damaged or injured by evil or cruelty, resulting in a loss of innocence, an understanding of the brutal world, or even physical injury or death.
During Tom Robinson's trial, the reader begins to see how Dill is a symbolic mockingbird. Specifically, after the cruel cross-examination by Mr. Gilmer, Dill reveals this side of himself. He and Scout go outside where Dill compares Mr. Gilmer with Atticus. He says that Atticus does not treat witnesses in that manner. A man who is outside with them, Mr. Dolphus Raymond, assures Dill that he will soon reach a point in his life that he will not cry about such matters. It is during this time that the reader sees a loss of Dill's innocence. Dill realizes that people do not always treat others fairly or care about understanding others. Up until this time, Dill was essentially unaware of differences between black people and white people, and just assumed that all people are equal as they are all members of the human race. During this scene in the book, Dill loses his ability to be blind to race and color, therefore losing his childish innocence, and becoming a symbolic mockingbird.
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