Maycomb’s Twins Certain uncanny resemblance’s between Tom Robinson and Boo Radley’s lives exist in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. In this novel, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson both symbolize the mockingbird. A mockingbird is a harmless bird that makes the world more pleasant with it’s song. Both Boo and Tom were peaceful people who never did any harm. The first parallel in the lives of Tom and Boo focuses …showed first 75 words of 482 total…

…showed last 75 words of 482 total…crime. The two men are on the outskirts of society, and their lives have certain resemblance’s because of that quality. They are generally not trusted, deemed a threat, and people fail to understand them. Both men become the subject of horror stories to the people that do not understand or attempt to understand them. Even though they never met, Tom and Boo’s similar situations cause them to share many aspects of their lives.