This may be a matter of opinion, because every teacher
likes to focus on different aspects of a novel like this one. When I take a look with my
students, I find the book to demonstrate innocence in several ways, but three in
particular.
1. There is this storyline of Boo Radley
throughout the book. From the beginning, the children find him to be the persona that
the town believes: a phantom. The mystery of his character seems to turn out to be
different than their original suspicions. In fact, he ends up being a
hero.
2. The story of Tom Robinson's accusation and our
experience of his innocence as facts are revealed throughout the trial and beyond seems
to be a second major purpose of the novel.
3. Finally, the
loss of the children's innocence as they discover the problem of humanity's judgement
and Maycomb's prejudice occupies the majority of the book. This is important because
these children seemed to live a life in which they can learn from the mistakes of the
generation before them.
Your teacher may be looking for
something different, but in short, this is one way to divide the book into 3 major
happenings.
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