To Kill A Mockingbird Song Analysis

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The Mockingbirds Songs In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird she describes mockingbirds as beautiful and graceful so it would be a sin to kill one. Like mockingbirds people sing songs too in To Kill A Mockingbird there are many characters that have different personalities, opinions, and actions these characteristics would probably change the way these characters sing their songs In Bob Ewell’s case, he was a rotten person that was despicable he spat in atticus's face, he probably raped and beat his daughter and tried to kill jem and scout, all and all he is a bad person that is why i think he should sing Begin Match to source 4 in source list: http://www.learnbluesguitarlessons.com/learn-bad-to-the-bone-by-george-thorogood-the-destroyers/Bad to the bone by George Thorogood and the Destroyers,End Match I agree that he would sing the part that says Begin Match to source 3 in source list: http://mp3-blog.net/get/Destroyers, The/“I'm bad to the bone B-B-B-B-Bad“.End Match Bob Ewell throughout the book didn’t do anything right he was a very rotten person I guess you could say he was bad down to his bones.

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