theme...

i think the main theme in the book is segregation. tom robinson got framed for raping mayella becaues hes black. when really her father beat her for falling in love with tom. evenif no one had beat her they could have claimed to have been beaten by a black man and right then and there the black man would have lost the case.

i think tom robinson is the mocking bird of the story. he is innocent and does nothing but help other people. but when he tries to be a good man and not have an affair with miss mayella she claims that he raped her and now he might lose the case but he has atticus on his side,