Dill, Jem, and Scout, during their Summer role-playing
games, made the Radleys and specifically Boo, a subject of a myriad of imaginary
legends. Everything from him attacking his unsuspecting mother, to poisoning nearby
fruit trees, you name it.
The truth was that he was
mentally handicapped (challenged), and his family protected him and isolated him the way
people tend to do with birds.
However, he was not the only
mockingbird in the story. Tom Robinson was his doppelganger. Both men had limitations,
and both had to fight to defend themselves against the machinations of society. That is
reason enough to see how they both parallel mockingbirds: A bird that mocks the songs of
other birds (and might get a bad rap about it) simply because it has an innate
limitation to create its own song.
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