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.
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