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In "To Kill a Mockingbird". Atticus Tells his kids that his father got him a gun, and his father said that he could shoot all the jays in the world if he could hit them, BUT it is a sin to kill a Mockingbird. Mockingbirds, they don't eat up our flowers, and they don't harm us, all they do is sing there hearts out for us. That is why its a sin to kill an innocent bird. Jays on the other hand eat up our bugs that don't harm us. That's why you can kill a Jay, not a Mockingbird. and READ THE BOOK. It's mentioned a lot throughout it. Hope I have succeeded in my helpings...

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