Write This Theme In Your Own Words

In Chapter 10, Miss Maudie says, "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." This quotation explains an important theme of this novel. Write this theme in your own words. Do not refer to mockingbirds because the statement above is just a metaphor for humans.