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Atticus says "remember it's a sin to kill a mocking bird". put this statement in your own words. what does Atticus really mean? use the strongest evidence from the novel in your answer​

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”It's a sin to kill a mockingbird" the mockingbird is a symbol of innocence, and he is saying that you should not harm the innocent, and the mockingbird is not a threat to anyone just like someone who is innocent/pure at heart is not a threat so if we harm them we are doing wrong and therefor it would be a sin to do such.

in proverbs 1 it talks about hurting the innocent, i think that this would be something that would work well for your question, because Solomon the man who wrote most of the proverbs was a father Figure just like atticus and here they are talking about the same thing

Proverbs 1:8

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 1:9

For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Proverbs 1:11

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Proverbs 1:13

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Proverbs 1:14

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

Proverbs 1:15

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:17

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Proverbs 1:18

And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

Proverbs 1:19

So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

(if you wanna read the rest look it up, but this should help prove your point with what i wrote up there)

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