A Mockingbird as a character in a story for me is someone that gives off a very positive and high spirited effect on the reader. As Miss Maudie said ‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s 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.’ This quote comes up a lot in the book. Often they are harmless and somewhat  innocent entity’s in which are pummeled and bombarded with abuse even when there is no valid reason for this. For example Tom Robinson is a Mockingbird because out of the kindness of his heart he would day by day, help Mayella Ewell with the more harder chores around her compound like cutting up chiffarobes and all sorts. Mayella had offered to pay dear Tom Robinson but he had declined because he saw the hardship that she would go through with taking care of her siblings and her father. He continuously did this until one evening Mayella pounced on Tom Robinson and tried to kiss him and therefore initiate sexual conduct but Tom refused and pushed her away gently and this was at which the point that Bob Ewell was peering through the window and saw this act. and ran off. Ashamed and in disgust she had claimed that Tom raped her when it was her herself that had raped him. He was then taken to caught and charged with rape. This shows how Tom Robinson is a Mockingbird because he was innocent , kind hearted and high spirited yet he was condemned with the charge of rape even tho he had done nothing wrong to Mayella Ewell.