To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the Mockingbird was used to symbolize those characters who were senselessly harmed by others yet harmless themsleves. In this novel, certain individuals were singled out by society simply because they were different than many others. People are often affraid of what they are not accustomed to in everyday life. Therefore these certain individuals are viewed as outcasts to society for no certain reason at all, such as skin color. One character who was symbolized by the mockingbird was a black man, Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was a man who had been wrongly viewed by society. Society view