Motif of the Mockingbird

After reading To Kill a Mockingbird, i realize that motif was a very strong literary element used in the novel. At the beginning of the year i was unsure what motif was and i really was not sure how to find it and use it. I am confident now that i know what motif is because the mocking bird motif really pops out at you once you go through the motif epiphany.

In the novel, several themes occur such as racial prejudice, justice verses injustice, and southern womanhood. These themes all point to the mocking bird motif in some way, "Do not harm someone or something that cannot harm you." The motif is easy to understand because we can all relate to the problems the characters face in the novel except on a different level. Just think about how they go through rough times because of there gender or color in the 1930's, yet today we may feel like we do not fit in because of our personalities or our social classes.

Life Lesson, My Young Padawan

I have learned many important things about life through out my childhood, but the most important one is that telling lies is not the same as joking around. When i was first grade i would tell stupid lies about people because i thought it was funny. People always got very annoyed with stupid made up stories about them passed around at recess. After a while i realized stories about my self were coming back t me.

Some were very hurtful and i was very mad, so i told my mom the story. She had asked me if i had been passing around lies about people as well. I said yes and she was very upset. She told me thst lying was bad and to never tell untruthful things about others. So, i think this was an important lesson because i finally realized the effect of the gossip cycle.