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How is Boo Radley like a mocking bird? Who would be a modern example and why?

Boo Radley is a mocking bird in the sense that he in the end was different in what people said about him. He was a gentlemen and if Heck Tate and Atticus told the town about his heroism saving Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell the church ladies would flood him with cakes and things but, Boo wasnt kept inside he chose to stay there. The town was judgemental to anyone who was different and they placed them outside of the caring and 'love' they provided to the people who followed the age old rules. He was innocent from everything people said about him and still like a mockingbird he was talked about or shot (the mockingbird being shot not Boo)

If you take the second portion of your question and think of who might be a victim of circumstances and/or at the mercy of society--the "who" can take on a number of characteristics. Any movie or music star or any person in the public spotlight whose personality is under a microscope and "we" as a society pass judgement on them could be labeled a modern day mocking bird. Think about how many famous people we pretend to "know" based on the stories others provide to us--we don't truly "know" the person unless we are intimates of theirs and actually interact with the person. Britney Spears, Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin,.....All of these people are regularly in the news as judgement is passed on their intelligence, ability to parent, succes or failures in their love life, their family life...and we are really only seeing the People or Newsweek reporters' guesses, not actually what the inner workings of the person in question's life events signify.