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It is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This simple phrase seems unimportant and trivial, however, it has a much deeper meaning. The understanding, or misinterpretation, of this phrase makes all the difference in this book. In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, there are three main literary elements throughout the story. These elements are imagery, symbolism, and allegory and are used to show the themes of misunderstandings, courage, and prejudice. The first literary element…

It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird In to Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus says to Scout “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it” (119). Many people can elaborate from this quote, mockingbirds can be considered a sin to kill them. All mockingbirds do is sing their hearts out for us and that it’s a sin to kill them. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus elaborates on why people can be considered…

In this set of materials, the reading part discusses the ways and solutions that are represented for preventing injuries to birds from building that the glass is used in them. The listening section casts doubt on the information presented in the passage and argues that this three represented solutions are not effective suggestions and utilizing of them can't be useful and effective for preventing injuries to birds. Frist, the text posits that people can replace the regular glass with one-way…

The vast majority of people in the world are good, but there are always some who are bad. There are people who make peace and there are people who break peace. Different people can be represented by different symbols or other things. The mockingbird in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is used as a symbol that represents innocence and peace. Two characters from Lee’s book that the mockingbird would best represent are Boo(Arthur) Radley and Tom Robinson, for they are both innocent…

Confucianism is in the song “Honor to Us All”, which speaks about how women should be perfect porcelain dolls, and how they should find husbands to bring honor to their families (Fowler). In the legend, Mulan would have been Buddhist. She was living in the Northern Wei dynasty, which was a highly Buddhist society where Confucianism was looked down on (Editors). Buddhism’s goal was to reach nirvana, or a higher state of being (Erricker), while Confucianism’s goal was for people to accept their…

Sky Burial, also known as celestial burial is a ritual commonly practiced in many provinces such as Mongolia and Qinghai, but mainly in Tibet, has been done for a thousand years. It is the way of disposing the body in the most beneficial way, by it being fed to the vultures. They consider the body after death to be empty so there's no harm in disposing it in the most generous way possible. It starts off with the body being untouched for three days then wrapped with white cloth and finally…

One of the studies done by (Nulty et al.2010) supports one of the points made in this paper; the song sparrows have various song types. Males have not one song but a song repertoire of 6–12 different songs (Nulty et al. 2010). There are other different types of songs used for sending particular messages, for instance When they give out the short phrases that have a sharp chip note, it indicates alarm or anxiety (Girard et al. 2012). Both the male and the female song sparrows make the sound when…

Harper Lee uses an extensive amount of symbolism in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The story is set in the quaint, little town of Maycomb, Alabama in the nineteen thirties’. Lee uses many of the characters in her novel to symbolize the stigmatizes of that time. She uses a mockingbird to symbolize the destructions of innocence. The mockingbirds of the book can by represented by Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Boo was corrupted by the prejudice of the townsfolk of Maycomb County, and Tom Robinson…

‘’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." . (chapter 20, Lee). Atticus is explaining the importance of how ignorance should not be tolerated, and the people who take innocent lives won’t face the consequences. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee reveals the social values of Family, equality, and love that she…

Sometimes the truth is the right thing to tell even when you believe an individual may not want to hear it. Bending the truth slightly, can lead some into thinking that “Things are always worse than what you hear” (227). Choosing not to tell the truth can distort people's feelings and beliefs. I chose the statement Teaching the Chicken to Cluck because they are a small symbols in the novel with multiple references and a large meaning behind them . The chicken is a cult animal of the Makumba cult…