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Here is a quote by Miss Maudie Atkinson from To Kill a Mockingbird, which defines a "mockingbird" quite well:

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin To Kill a Mockingbird." Reading this you could say, figuratively, Atticus was indeed a mockingbird.

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