Mockingbird Motif

The mockingbird motif is repeated throughout the book. It only comes up at least 3 or 4 times. This motif helped me understand what motif is more by actually saying it's a sin to kill a mockingbird which is the book title. Then the times after that I understood that it was the motif because it refered to some of the characters as innocent and fragile like a mockingbird and it also said that it would be like killing a mockingbird. Mockingbirds are fragile and innocent they don't harm anyone and just sing to everyone.

The mockingbird motif that reccurs throughout the book is about people that are fragile and inoccent to other people. Scout calls Boo Radley a mockingbird because he is fragile and doesn't do harm to anybody until he kills Bob Ewell. Scout tries to walk in his shoes by thinking about how he could stay in his house for so many years and not come out. Tom is compared to a mockingbird also. He was innocent in the trial, but back then nobody would put a black man's voice over a white man's voice no matter how bad they think the black man is innocent. This is like the theme justice vs. injustice. The injust part is when Tom is convicted for something he didn't do.

Life Lessons

My parents have always told me to be honest, nice, and finish all of your school work. They usually say to finish my homework because they say that it will pay off in the long run, and that it will help me with other things in life that may have the same situation. Also I would put off projects until either a couple days before the due date or the night and morning of. I don't do this anymore because I learned the hard way kind of that it doesn't work out so good. It's better to get something done early and wait a couple of days to turn it in then to finish it all the night of and spend all night working on it.

I always finish my homework when I get home, so I know I have finished it and I can just relax, but after I finish my chores. Then I don't have to worry about anything until the next day. They always tell me to be honest, which I am, it's better to be honest then to lie because if you lie then the guilt is stuck on you and you feel really bad, I know I would. I am nice to almost everyone, there are those few people, but very little that just bother me until I crack. It's nice to be honest and nice because people will trust you and respect you for who you are and if you lie, that all goes away.