"Its a sin to kill a mockingbird. " Mockingbirds don't do anything besides make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat gardens, nest in corncribs, instead they just simply sing their hearts out for us. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee she talks about her childhood and everything she remembers.…
Although it was never mentioned, the kids: Dill, Jem and Scout, are also mockingbirds of the book. Saying “It is a sin to kill a mockingbird” refers also to the loss of childhood innocence during the course of what the children discover about the how harsh life can be and the evils men do to one another. These children start off very innocent, but by the end of the novel they no longer have that innocence due to everything that is exposed to them. During the trial, the kids saw the bad side of Maycomb and in seeing all the prejudice and racism in the town, we see them lose their…
“A child educated only through school is an uneducated child,” as said by George Santayana, an Italian philosopher and novelist. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, the characters clearly show how important it is to understand morals and perspectives. Through many conflicts and misunderstandings, the adults in the novel educate the children about the basis of accepting and understanding one another and how important it is. The most significant theme shown through the narrative, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is the education of children in morals and perspectives is important, this theme is shown through three events, being taught morals, demonstrating them, and how learning them has affected them. One piece of morals that…
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This is a quote from Atticus in the story where he explains to Scout about understanding the reasons people act the way they do toward others. Resembling the quote, I chose to shadow my father. My father is a CPA and a contractor. He is a very hard worker and deals with all kinds of people from clients regarding their tax returns to sub-contractors wanting to get paid.…
Atticus is an innocent person, but after all he is trying to do the people in Maycomb County are still hate Atticus. Yet, Atticus is a mockingbird. Since mockingbirds make beautiful music, because Atticus was standing up for Tom Robinson, Atticus was making beautiful music…
Why is it a sin to kill a mockingbird? In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, a mockingbird symbolizes innocence. According to Atticus, “It is a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Pg 119). Three examples of mockingbirds are, Mayella Ewell, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley.…
Harper Lee once said “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” This problem still happens today, everyone judges a person without evening knowing them. When someone judges someone with tattoos and piercings they automatically think he is a bad guy but that isn’t always true. Their point of view can be totally wrong but they would never know. They will never get to truly know the person because their point of view shows them as bad people.…
“It is a sin to 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 the main characters of the book, Jem and Scout, get air rifles, but also symbolically in 3 characters.…
Atticus explains that “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (90) since it would compare to the idea of killing pure innocence. A mockingbird that is killed in the novel is Tom Robinson. For instance, during Tom’s testimony, it is revealed that he is a very innocent and pure man. It is announced that when Tom would be going by the house of Mayella Ewell, “she’d have little somethin’ for [him] to do - choppin’, kindlin’, totin’ water” (191). Tom would not only do what she asked for him, but he would do it without any charge.…
To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book showing how people can grow together. We have Scout and Jem growing up together in an innocent childhood growing into adulthood. We have Tom Robinson, an African American man who, is going to court with Atticus Finch (scouts father) and is trying to defend Tom against the harming white community. Tom Robinson was accused of rape of a white female Mayella. The raping of a white woman by a black man is similar to The Scottsboro Trial in 1933, where 9 black men were falsely accused of raping two white women.…
Harper Lee using the trial of Tom Robinson as the theme of this novel. On the other hand, the movie The Butler by Lee Daniels also has the same theme uses Cecil Gaines as a mockingbird in the movie. Tom Robinson was the mockingbird in the novel To kill a Mockingbird. Tom would be considered a mockingbird because he was a kind man who harmed no one. He was being helpful and kind to Mayelle with the chores that she tells him.…
Tom Robinson can be identified as one of these mockingbirds, whose purity is destroyed in the ill-diseased town of Maycomb. Next, Boo Radley is another innocent soul who suffers being an outcast…
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.…
To Kill a Mockingbird - “Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." This passage was a major part of the story because of the symbolism that has now been revealed. The Mockingbird is a harmless and pure hearted animal, which in this story symbolizes Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. I chose this passage because of the strong meaning behind it.…
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.…