A Mockingbird as a character in a story for me is someone that gives off a very positive and high spirited effect on the reader. As Miss Maudie said ‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ This quote comes up a lot in the book. Often they are harmless and somewhat innocent entity’s in which are pummeled and bombarded with abuse even when there is no valid reason for this. For example Tom Robinson is a Mockingbird because out of the kindness of his heart he would day by day, help Mayella Ewell with the more harder chores around her compound like cutting up chiffarobes and all sorts. Mayella had offered to pay dear Tom Robinson but he had declined because he saw the hardship that she would go through with taking care of her siblings and her father. He continuously did this until one evening Mayella pounced on Tom Robinson and tried to kiss him and therefore initiate sexual conduct but Tom refused and pushed her away gently and this was at which the point that Bob Ewell was peering through the window and saw this act. and ran off. Ashamed and in disgust she had claimed that Tom raped her when it was her herself that had raped him. He was then taken to caught and charged with rape. This shows how Tom Robinson is a Mockingbird because he was innocent , kind hearted and high spirited yet he was condemned with the charge of rape even tho he had done nothing wrong to Mayella Ewell.
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April 22, 2015 at 2:39 pm
Good insight shown Eugene. You have identified how Tom is innocent and how he comes up against forces of evil.
However I am not sure I would say that a mockingbirds is “someone that gives of a very positive and high spirited effect on the reader. ” Perhaps you could explain what you mean by this?
Ms A
April 26, 2015 at 4:54 pm
Okay thank you Miss Andrews for the feedback.
A Mockingbird is someone that gives off a very positive and high spirited effect on the reader because often and most certainly a Mockingbird is a good character from a story in which does selfless deeds and does not expect or want anything in return.
April 26, 2015 at 5:20 pm
I really like how you’ve gone back to this piece and fixed the small spelling errors. That’s great scholarly work, Eugene.
April 27, 2015 at 11:30 am
Thanks for fixing and explaining Eugene. Your eagerness to do well pleases me 🙂 Have you published your work on semantic fields?