![]() ![]() No wonder it took over 100 years to normalise relations between blacks and whites. Heck says “let the dead bury the dead,” so Tom has to bury Bob, that (to me) means he wants the white folks of Maycomb to go on pretending everything is just dandy in their town: never mind there once was a trial and an innocent man was convicted because the jury preferred to pretend to believe the lies of an abusive guy who is capable of murdering children. When Tom is in the county jail he is being protected by Atticus and Heck has been sent off on a wild goose chase, and when Heck arrives on the scene after the murder of Bob he behaves pretty corrupt: he tampers with evidence and he lies. Heck was negligent and incompetent when he arrested Tom: he had no evidence, investigated nothing and did not even question Tom. ![]() I do not believe Heck Tate was right and I do not believe Harper thought Heck Tate was right either. I think it is pretty ironic when Scout appeases Atticus at the end of the book by using his own line (and she is not mocking… she repeats without understanding properly) to explain why Heck Tate was right. So, I think the mockingbird is Scout as she does repeat some nasty noises she has picked up from others like "nigger," "after all he's just a Negro" and "she's supposed to go round back" but generally she sings a beautiful song to us. anyway, mockingbirds do have one thing that makes them special: they can repeat noises other birds (and even insects and frogs) make. Mockingbirds are common songbirds in Alabama, just like blue jays, maybe they sing a bit nicer and eat no nuts, but generally they are not really very much better than blue jays at all, so I do not understand why Atticus says its ok to kill blue jays but “a sin” to kill mockingbirds, it seems to me a man like Atticus should be against any killing for pleasure, but, as he admits even he has "blind spots".
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