Why It's a Sin To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee. To Kill A Mockingbird sets in 1960 to show how people lived together, worked together, and dealt with each other. The book is set in the 1930's in a small rural town in Alabama, to the south of Montgomery. The mocking bird is a very important symbol in "To Kill A Mockingbird." It represents people who are outsiders …showed first 75 words of 1115 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1115 total…it. "Your father's right," she 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 corn cribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."(Lee 90) That Lee quotes is the conclusion proving and providing examples why Tom Robinson and Boo Radley (Mr. Author Radley) are two of the mockingbirds.