I have stated, finding the theme of a story can be tricky even for adults. Additionally, the information I gathered from the q and a on the first day, also illustrated these students are no different than anyone else. Many of them struggled at this skill. Each day I instructed another lesson on the theme, additional students understood the differences between a theme and a moral. The hard one for students to grasp is the difference between the theme and main idea. I stressed in every lesson that students need to remember, the theme is the message the author is trying to convey to us. The main idea can often be directly linked to the title, To Kill a Mockingbird the reader can ask themselves; what does it mean to kill a mockingbird? Perhaps even; what is a mockingbird anyway? From those initial questions, the reader can derive a clue to the maid idea, but that idea is far removed from the theme of the novel. The theme of any text also relates to how we feel about something, or even what we want to do about something, because we have read this authors’ text.
On my first day, I hooked the kids in by telling them a story from my childhood. I loved to play with matches as a boy and ended up starting a road ditch on fire. A neighbor ran over and put the fire out. He scolded me harshly and explained to me that if my father, the Lieutenant in the fire department asked about the blaze; he would lie so I wouldn’t get in trouble. I then questioned the class, if it was ever okay to
To Kill a Mockingbird is filled with wild symbolism and many secrets still yet unfolded. Symbolism is using a concrete object that means one thing and using it to represent ideas or qualities. A mockingbird is a bird that does nothing but pleases us. They sing their hearts out for us. They don’t roost in corncribs or eat up your plants; mockingbirds are here to please us. Atticus had once said this and it turns out to be true. The reason this is like symbolism is because people can be like mockingbirds
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird we learn about many different characters who symbolize many different aspects of what a mockingbird truly is. What it means to be a mockingbird is when you harm no one and lose your purity. In the book a man named Atticus tells his two children, Jem and Scout “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(p.119) His young daughter Scout then asked their maid, Miss Maudie what she thought about Atticus's statement
Mockingbirds are not like other birds, these birds sing songs, and they do not do any harm to us. If one kills a mockingbird, it is a sin because mockingbirds make nature look beautiful, yet they are killed for no good reason. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, there are events where it tells us what mockingbirds symbolizes. Sometimes, it would be from characters in the novel instead of events such as Boo Radley and Tom Robinson.
Throughout the story, Boo Radley was
To Kill a Mockingbird is a book written by Harper Lee. It’s about a little tomboyish girl named Scout, her brother Jem, and her widowed- lawyer father, Atticus. The story is set
their personality. In To Kill a Mockingbird the best way to describe the main characters are through shapes.The reason Jim is a star is because he is a goody two-shoes and does not like to fight. He also wants to do good with his life. He does all that he can to make his father proud. The reason the star was chosen for Jim was because he is the kind of person who would get the golden star in class. Calpurnia represents a square because she is a “basic” Character. She does not have anything special
evacuate the town. This represents bravery to me personally because my grandfather put other lives before his own preferences. Basicly did the thing that was so impossible hard for him to do to protect the people of the town. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, in chapter 10, a character
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, some characters are symbolized by flowers. Harper Lee connects specific flowers to characters because of the meaning of the flowers. She compares Mrs. Dubose to a Camellia, Mrs. Maudie to Azalea, and Calpurnia the Calpurnia flower.
For instance, Mrs. Dubose is connected to the Camillia because she has racism so deep in her like the root of a Camellia. The narrator says, “Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the characterization of Dill helps to reveal the theme. Scout, Dill, and Jem was at the trial of Tom Robinson and they were watching the trial of Tom Robinson in the balcony of the courtroom. Tom Robinson is standing on the witness stand and is cruelly addressed by one of the juries. “I don’t care one speck, it ain’t right, somehow it ain’t right to do em’ that way. Hasn’t anybody got any business talkin like that- it just makes me sick.”(266). As Dill says
reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. There were 376 pages total in the novel. This book is about the Finch family who lives in Maycomb Alabama during a time of great racism. The family is made up of Atticus, Calpurnia, their cook, Jem, and Scout. In this journal I will be evaluating.
The mockingbird in this novel is symbolized by two specific people. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus says, “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” (Lee
I believe that the black community in the book are considered to be the mockingbirds of the story, which in turn makes Robert (Mr.Ewell) and Mayella Ewell the ‘predators’. I will be explaining my thoughts and the reason why I think this, but before getting into more detail about my hypothesis I want to briefly clarify you about features of the mockingbird itself.
The mockingbird is a bird, obviously, which are normally seen as the prey. They are omnivorous which means they eat other animals and