To Kill A Mockingbird: Atticus and Miss Maudie Mayella Ewell is very much like a mockingbird. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus and Miss Maudie are two of the main adult characters. Both of them explain to Jem and Scout that Mocking birds do no harm, only sing and that it’s a sin to even shoot them, let alone to kill one. When evaluating the characters in To Kill A Mockingbird, I see that many hold certain aspects of this description. Boo was shy and kept out of people’s way because he did not want to cause harm. Tom Robinson really did nothing wrong. But Mayella Ewell is the