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.