Northern Ndebele people

symbolises the mockingbird is how he sends gifts to the kids in the tree. This act of kindness from Arthur shows how he doesn’t do anything wrong towards the kids and he is trying to be nice to them just like a mockingbird doesn’t cause any issues towards people in life. Arthur also shows characteristics of being the mockingbird as he saves the kids from Bob Ewell, for example, "He was carrying Jem.” So not only did he save the…

and victory for the underdog in numbers, Scotland, a country protecting its land from the massive power that was England. The historical significance of the battle is what keeps it alive to this day in Scotland. This past June, tens of thousands of people gathered to watch a reenactment of the battle in honor of it’s 700th anniversary . Musicians and comedians performed, there was great food, great beer, and an incredibly realistic representation of the Battle of Bannockburn was staged by…

terminating the movement. In the end, more than 450 people were killed before Pearse decided to call it quits and surrendered. In a matter of weeks most of the leaders of the revolt were hunted down and shot for treason. After the executions, the soldiers collectd the dead bodies and…

creatures who do nothing but provide people with entertainment through their singing. Killing a mockingbird is the equivalent to humans harming others who have done nothing wrong at all. Atticus says, “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life… whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”(Lee 224) This states the idea of how people should do others right no…

then he unjustly accuses and convicts Tom Robinson of rape. Tom Robinson, who would go out of his way to help a poor family that hated blacks free gratis, is the perfect example of a mockingbird. Despite his kindness, selflessness, and innocence, people have no trouble accusing him of a crime that, if convicted, would cost him his life.…

In To Kill A Mockingbird some characters like Jem, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, Dill and Mr. Raymond are identified as mockingbirds. To kill a mockingbird can be referenced to destroying innocence, or in this case innocents who have been destroyed or injured through contact with evil. In this case, it could be Atticus, Tom Robinson or Jem. Atticus is a very important character in the story as he is the father of Scout and Jem, he is also very smart and still learns as much as Jem and Scout. If…

kill a Mockingbird”. This means that is a sin to ruin something, or someone that is innocent, that does no harm, or just does there best to help everyone. This metaphor applies to everyone, and everywhere as in any community, anywhere there will be people and things uncorrupted by the world, and in most every case there innocence is lost in the process of life. This metaphor is used a lot in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, By Harper Lee. Sometimes, it is meant literally in the book, like when…

early 1900s “fought an insurgency that successfully challenged British rule in the whole of Ireland” (Gregory, 2010), this challenge resulted in an agreement granting Irish Independence in 1921. Independence was agreed upon with a caveat that the 6 northern counties be retained by the British. This agreement resulted in uneasy peace through 1969 when IRA leadership in Belfast split with their Dublin counterparts and adopted a policy of catalytic violence for unification. These events in…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the mockingbird is a symbol of innocence. Throughout the story there are multiple people who are shown as mockingbirds. For instance, the character Dill Harris, a boy who visits Maycomb County every summer, was shown to be an innocent boy. He was innocent because of the way he is first described, what he likes to do, and what happened to him during the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape. During Dill’s first arrival in Maycomb County, a town…

regardless of its revolutionary aspects. Yet Edwards does not dismiss Pearse as selfishly seeking his own fame, she presents his view of what the Rising would do for Ireland; making it economically self-sufficient, isolationist, and full of charitable people. She also addresses the seemingly contradictory Catholic and pagan Irish traditions that influenced his arguments for the separation of Ireland from England. In addition, Edwards points out that Pearse, in his knowledge that the Rising would…