Northern Mockingbird

Jem and Scout’s curiosity can get the best of them in some situations and cause them to become involved with conflicts.An example is, Jem and Scout wanted to find out what Boo Radley looked like because all they have heard is stories. They decide to sneak into the Radley’s backyard and look into the windows. During the middle of their adventure it was brought to a abrupt stop. Scout explained, “Halfway through the collards I tripped; as I tripped the roar of a shotgun shattered the…

A mockingbird is a symbol of innocence, purity, and goodness. Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley is portrayed as one if many mockingbirds in this novel. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Harper Lee uses symbolism, irony, and metaphor to characterize Boo Radley as misunderstood and innocent. Harper Lee metaphorically compares Boo Radley to a monster through Jem’s over exaggerated description of Boo at the beginning of the novel. Jem describes Boo as “about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks” (page…

everything they know while also emphasizing how they are perceived by others. Furthermore, perception can bring people to wrongly judge what they see in the world. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the perception of a child in a town full of rumors to fully affirm Arthur “Boo” Radley as the true mockingbird. Considering that the perspective of the novel is told from a child, it can be hard to see Boo Radley as anything more than a menace in the beginning. At the end of the…

worthy role model of justice for them that was very much needed in the time setting of the story. Not only is Atticus an important character to the story purely as himself, his is also needed to help form the characters of his children. To Kill a Mockingbird is set back in the time of segregation and extreme racism. Atticus was one of the few people of Maycomb that treated African Americans as respectful humans with kindness. As a result of how he viewed all people as equal, despite their race,…

Another similarity between “Hansel and Gretel” and The Hunger Games is the conspiracy of the birds. In both of these stories, the birds seem to guide the children throughout their journey. Hansel thinks he sees a white bird above his family home; there is also a white bird that guides them to the witch’s house and the duck that helps them across the water. It states “Help us, help us little duck. Hansel and Gretel are out of luck. There’s no bridge, not far or wide. Help us, give us both a ride.…

Would you say Jem has the same behavior throughout the whole book To kill a Mockingbird? In the story you will realize the change of behavior in Jem. There had been many moments in the story where you see Jem growing into a young man. Some may not see but these sites will prove to you his growth and improvement of behavior in the story.People may believe others in To kill a Mockingbird had matured more but in my opinion i see Jem has changed the most. The beginning to the end you will notice Jem…

Long ago, in a time where only land animals existed there was a bird named Aves. Unlike, the birds we know of today Aves wasn’t able to fly nor were any other animals. Day after day, he would stare up at the trees branches and clouds wishing that he could, at least just once, touch them. He had tried many times to climb the trees but his tiny, fragile legs weren’t capable of taking him to the top. One evening, out of anger and spite, he yelled up to the Sky God, “Caelum! Why do you create such…

To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, the book takes place in a Southern town in the twentieth century in the fictional town of Maycomb. In to Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses symbolism in order to convey the idea that doing harm to people who are helpless and innocent is a horrible thing and can lead to unwanted actions. As we all know mockingbirds represent a symbol of innocence, Lee makes Miss Maudie point out that "...[mockingbirds] don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for…

The use of symbolism helps Vonnegut further convey his ideas on death and war. Vonnegut uses a bird to symbolize his speechless silence towards war. For example, Vonnegut says “everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like ‘Poo-tee-weet?’” (Vonnegut 19). Vonnegut uses birds to show that animals cannot even make sense of the massacres and devastations of war. There are…

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee characterizes Tom Robinson as a man who demonstrates the truth that harming something or someone who does no harm to society is wrong. Lee compares Robinson to a mockingbird in that both Tom and the the mockingbird both do no harm to society. Rather, these “mockingbirds” help people in whatever way they can. Whether it be busting up a chiffarobe or singing a beautiful song on a quiet Sunday afternoon, killing a so-called “mockingbird” is most definitely a…