The obvious answer to this question is Boo Radley. At the
end of the novel, we see that Scout learns the lesson of not killing the mockingbird. As
she was told in the begining of the novel, a mockingbird only sings all day and makes
people happy, so one should never kill the innocent bird. Boo Radley had reached out the
the children and tried to become their friend. Unknown to them, he was watching out for
them and he protected them, so why tell the law what really happened on that dark night?
It would be an instance of when doing the legal thing was not really the right thing.
Sometimes we have to obey a higher power.
Who is the other
mockingbird? Several possibilities, perhaps, but I think Tom Robinson is another
mockingbird. He was a kind family man only trying to help Mayella. He said in court he
felt sorry for her. He was an innocent man that was taken advantage of by a white-trash
woman, and then made a scapegoat. What happened to Tom is in stark contrast of what
happened to Boo. In Tom's case, justice was served, but it was injustice. Atticus did
not want to make the same mistake with Boo Radley.
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