"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee - this essay describes the different themes and symbolisms in the book.

Lee's Conveyance of the Truth. The themes of a novel are the main ideas that the author presents. In "To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee explores several themes, besides the dominant issue of racial prejudice. The author takes the reader through the childhood of Scout, the narrator, and her brother Jem, in Alabama during the 1930s. The reader analyzes the innocence of children as they grow and develop to maturity, while learning painful, important lessons …

…with empathy, and try to see life from their perspective, just like the mockingbird that does not care in whose tree he sits in, and sings. "High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will"(255).