To Kill A Mockingbird Book Poster Analysis

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The tree in my poster was resembling the mockingbird’s home. Just like Maycomb is to Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. With the tree I went for a drawn one because I felt that it resembled the book. It does so because the book is just a story and an “imaginary” one. The drawn tree is also not real and “imaginary,” just like the story. I chose a black and white one because that is how I pictured the story in my head.
I chose grey as a color for the rectangles because everything or everybody has a grey lining. Like the people of Maycomb, when part of the town came to lynch Tom Robinson, they dispersed when an 8 year old girl brings them back to reality. They had enough morality to relies what they are doing is wrong, and should do it. I also chose grey because it is a shade of a color, and with a transition it will
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The building in the bottom right-hand says “Maycomb Bank,” just as proof it is Maycomb. This was where the mockingbirds, and all of the other characters took place. The picture has no one in it, because like the book said, Maycomb was a sleepy town. The dead mockingbird in the middle of the town symbolizes, Tom Robinson’s death. Just like the bird, its death was fully public and anyone could see it, while Tom Robinson’s death wasn’t seen by everyone, it was, however, preventable. The bird and the background, are in black and white. What was because, I wanted the background and the foreground to represent the coexistences of good and evil. The book explores the basic morals of humans. Were humans are good, or have an instinct to be evil. The author portrays this, by shows the transition of Jem and Scout. The children start off with a “child’s” view on the world, which is good, because they haven’t seen the evil I the world. By the end of the novel, the children have an “adult” view, on the world because they have seen some of the evil in it, thus making them more

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