Northern Mockingbird

“It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(90) Why would anyone want to kill something that makes beautiful music? Why would anybody want to kill anything that he or she didn’t intend to use? People do cruel deeds all of the time because of things such as religion and race. Racism in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird affects the events in the novel by pointing out how chaotic and rude people were in the 1930s. Mr. Atticus Finch, the father of Jem and Scout Finch, was away on business on weekend.…

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, the mockingbird is a symbol of innocence being wrongly punished. Two major symbols of a mockingbird are the characters Tom Robinson and Arthur “Boo” Radley. Tom Robinson is the best embodiment of a Mockingbird because, he is an outcast due to his skin color and he was sent to jail for something that he didn’t do. Although some may think that Boo is the best example of a Mockingbird, Tom got killed despite his innocence. One reason that Tom Robinson is the…

Imagine a mockingbird soaring through a beautiful blue sky with white clouds. It glides down onto a branch and settles on it. The bird starts chanting it's beautiful music, dazzling all who listen. Suddenly, a vicious raven swoops down and plants his sharp talons into the poor mockingbird, killing it instantly. The mockingbird represents innocence. The raven represents evil, killing and destroying that innocence. In Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”, she compares the children of the…

To Kill A Mockingbird It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. It’s a sin to kill someone who only does good and doesn’t harm anybody. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Arthur Radley, Tom Robinson and Scout are portrayed as mockingbirds. These people haven’t done anything to hurt anyone. They try to help and make things better. While other people try to “kill” them. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee uses the symbol of the mockingbird to display to them that it’s a sin to kill…

for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” said Mrs. Maudie (Lee 119). When innocence is face to face with harsh realities of the real world, the destruction of the innocence symbolizes the killing of the mockingbird. Innocence is lost as evil becomes reality. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird many types of discrimination are shown in the interactions between the characters. The three forms of discrimination that are presented in To Kill A Mockingbird are racism, gender, and social…

They both undergo some type of transformation that enables them to become mature and aware of the reality that surrounds them. As analyst Claudia Durst Johnson states in her work “Literary Analysis: Unifying Elements of To Kill a Mockingbird,” during the course of the novel, “the children pass from innocence to knowledge. They begin to realize their own connection with the community’s outsiders, and they observe one man’s heroism in the face of community prejudice” (81). During their…

Pica The word ‘pica’ comes from the genus and species for magpie. In the past, people thought that what the magpie’s carried in their beaks is what they ate, though now we know that they just used those random objects for their nests (Young, 2011). The relationship between the word meaning and the disorder is accurate. Pica is an eating disorder where those who are afflicted with it eat things they are not supposed to, and it can negatively affect the sufferer's social lives and health. Pica…

Morality shapes the person. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, we see the protagonists, Scout and Junior, building their moral character throughout the story. They receive moral lessons, and they influence their life decisions. Lessons include: having to understand a person from one’s point of view, how wrong it is to destroy one’s innocence, the serious problem of discrimination, and tears don’t always mean…

character to come from outsiders until his appearance at the end of To Kill a Mockingbird. As a result, although not physically present for most of the novel, Harper Lee effectively involves his presence through mysterious and thrilling rumors fabricated by the townspeople. This leads to a stark contrast between the person the townspeople create Boo to…

Prejudice In To Kill a Mockingbird “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 90, ch. 10). This quote, though simple, is absolutely bursting with meaning. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story detailing the lives of two children living in 1930’s Alabama through the Great Depression. During this, they learn various life lessons crucial in enabling them to develop their own morals and values, a skill…