To Kill a Mockingbird

Write the line from the end of the chapter in which Mr. Underwood's editorial in Macomb Tribune echoes Atticus' earlier advice to Jem and Scout when they were given their guns. Then, explain how this connects to the title of the Novel. who is the Mocking?

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Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children, and Maycomb thought he was trying to write an editorial poetical enough to be reprinted in The Montgomery Advertiser.

This quote supports the title of the novel because it addresses the slaughter of the innocent. In this case, Tom Robinson is the mockingbird.

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