It presents life from a lighter point of view through an honest, direct, and often comic language and style. "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit `em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird,"" was the battlecry of Atticus, the father of Scout Finch, the narrator of the story, as he bravely defended Tom Robinson, the accused Negro, in front of an unjust jury, which decides on the basis of the color of the skin. True enough, it was "a sin to kill a mockingbird, that doesn't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy, doesn't eat up people's gardens, doesn't nest in corncribs, and doesn't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us."" In striking resemblance, it was a sin to judge "a hard-working man with morals and values to do the right thing and help others, a man who did his best to help and do good, rarely if ever did harm, and a man subjected to a trial that he could not win-simply because of his skin color."" - exactly what Tom Robinson was, a mockingbird who always tried to do good to other people but was always "targeted- and "shot- in a community that defines justice by race and color. Even Atticus, considering he is already part of the upper strata of the Maycomb society, had to undergo public condemnation for upholding good and proper morals and values the majority of the people failed to, and thus, forming the liking of a mockingbird himself. Defending a black man, on Atticus' part, though just and morally upright, was unheard of and thereby not tolerated by the majority of the citizens of Maycomb, as proven by the different "talks- within "the town- outrightly denouncing what Atticus was doing. Another "mockingbird- in the story was Boo Radley, who was the "center of many jokes and games- within the Maycomb community, primarily because he was completely different from any other person in the town. Although his true-natured kindness was reflected in several instances in the story, that culminated when he saved Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell, his being different was singled out as the more important basis of judgment for the town's people.