PLZ HELP FASTDon't answer if you don't know In at least 250 words, discuss the symbolism of the mockingbird and how it relates to the major storylines in To Kill a Mockingbird. ​

Explanation:

Mockingbirds within the novel, are primarily symbols of innocence. It also symbolizes goodness and beauty. When Miss Maudie first explains to Scout the meaning of Atticus' statement -- that it's a sin to kill a mockingbird -- she agrees with him.

Jem and Scout particularly symbolize innocence, goodness and beauty too. Although they are a bit more rambunctious than some children, their childlike questions and responses to the good and bad around them and their innate willingness to foster goodness in their actions make them positive symbols for the future of Maycomb.

To kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence. Throughout the book, a number of characters (Jem, Tom Robinson, Dill, Boo Radley, Mr. Raymond) can be identified as mockingbirds—innocents who have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. This connection between the novel’s title and its main theme is made explicit several times in the novel: after Tom Robinson is shot, Mr. Underwood compares his death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds,” and at the end of the book Scout thinks that hurting Boo Radley would be like “shootin’ a mockingbird.” Most important, Miss Maudie explains to Scout: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That Jem and Scout’s last name is Finch ( type of small bird) indicates that they are particularly vulnerable in the racist world of Maycomb, which often treats the fragile innocence of childhood harshly. Also an important symbol of the good that exists within people

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the knight would die while giong on a quest.