Northern Mockingbird

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy… they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” (Lee, 119) With an abundance of events in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird it is clear to see who our beloved characters really are. Specifically, who can be considered mockingbirds. By analyzing Atticus Finch's clear conscience, Tom Robinson's frank kindness, and Arthur "Boo" Radley's hidden affection, it is clear the three can be considered "mockingbirds" by the…

Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird and Their Eyes Were Watching God, the path to maturity is very significant. Jem Finch matures throughout the To Kill a Mockingbird and it helps the audience feel emotions about the events. Janie Crawford’s path to maturity, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, is quite different than Jem’s path. Janie matured in the aspect of love, where as Jem matured in the aspect of life. Jem and Janie’s paths to maturity are very significant to both novels and helps the audience…

innocent and naïve; Atticus feels a moral responsibility to defend him, as the novel's tide attests, because a black man accused in the Jim Crow South was as helpless as a mockingbird." In chapter ten of To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus says, "… Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee,) Marie Failinger, the author of Gentleman as Hero: Atticus Finch and the Lonely Path, makes four points in her article: We…

Mockingbirds- the title of the book is known as To Kill A Mockingbird. Mockingbirds are used throughout the story as a symbol of innocence and peace. To kill a mockingbird is considered a sin. Throughout the story, a majority of the characters symbolized mockingbirds such as Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Tom was innocent and was accused of rape. He was later killed by prison guards when he tried to escape. In the end, Scout believed exposing or hurting Boo to the public is like shooting a…

Symbolism The title, To Kill a Mockingbird, has little connection to the actual plot, yet it holds great symbolic weight in the book. The story is based off of innocents destroyed by evil, making the mockingbird the symbol for innocence. A number of characters can be represented by a mockingbird throughout the book, including Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and the mad dog. The connection made between the title and the main theme of the novel is made explicit in the novel multiple times. After Tom…

Throughout the book, Scout develops an understanding or her reclusive neighbor, Arthur Radley. Scout, the youngest child of Atticus and her deceased mother, spends her summers playing with her brother, Jem, and their neighbor. Their favorite and frequently played game is a play of their solitary neighbor’s life in which they act out his delinquent past. Scout describes their game, “[the children] had manufactured a small play upon which [they] rang changes every day.” (39) Every day, Scout…

once said. You can’t judge a book by it’s cover without reading the story. In To Kill a Mockingbird, people were judged on the outside without knowing them or their story. Also their innocence had been destroyed for doing nothing. Harper Lee uses symbolism throughout her entire book. It helps each and every reader to put themselves in the characters shoes and relate to them. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses symbolism to set up the problem. One example of symbolism is the mad…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird there is a complex character named Charles Baker “Dill” Harris. Changes throughout the book make Dill a complex character. Charles changes emotionally, imaginatively, and he grows aware throughout the book. Crying in front of Dolphus Raymond, Dill shows his emotions. The lawyer was profoundly rudimentary in the was he was interviewing Tom Robinson, making Dill cry. Scout thought that he was actually sick; In reply Dill stated, “It was the way he said it make me…

People blame the 9mm handgun, but that didn’t kill you; you were already a walking corpse. Your blood is still scattered across your Baby-Blue walls, like a starry northern desert sky. Your parents refuse to enter your room; they want to burn it to the ground. Forget everything and start over anew, hide the ugly past and live as happy-go-lucky imposters in the Suburbs. They put you in a black dress, with a white rose…

Affirming what Atticus said in regard to mockingbirds, which is how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they do not do any harm to this world just share their beautiful sounds. Miss Maudie says to Scout, “Your father’s right….Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119). Miss Maudie wants to explain to Scout why it is necessary a sin to kill a mockingbird, which is “make music for…