guy help: I’m studying to kill a mockingbird in English literature, a pretty amazing book. - Help.com

the mockingbird is a symbol of innocence.

if you read the whole book you will see who the real mockingbird is.

ps:(i am doing this book tooo and i have to write an essay on atticus right now :O)

i haven’t finisehd it DON’T GIVE IT AWAY PLEASEE =]

wondering who was leaving stuff in the tree

It’s a folk tale (to kill a mockingbird) just a myth.

its not entirely. the author based it on events in her own childhood.

Countess Tulip wrote:
It’s a folk tale (to kill a mockingbird) just a myth.

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnote…

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking…

http://www.novelguide.com/tokillamock…

these should help understand a bit more

not the book. The saying, to kill a mockingbird is a sin, is a just a tale. It’s because a mockingbird mimicks what it hears and can sound very beautiful while, a bluejay sound horrible and is annoying to cats.

I think that during the time and setting of the book, it was really a sin to kill a mockingbird. I think it’s because it was God’s bird created to fill the world with its song. Come to think of it, killing a bird for doing nothing wrong and for singing a beautiful song is as awful as a sin. When you kill a mockingbird, you kill an innocent creature.

So in the story, find characters that are innocent and yet got punished for something they didn’t do. Also, humans have the power to kill a mockingbird, because we’re the stronger species. So look in the story for characters who got others in a rut just because they’re stronger and have the better place in society. In the book, you’ll read that there’s discrimination, prejudice, hatred to Tom Robinson and Radley. Just because people don’t know them well and because people “CAN” do it to them. They are mockingbirds who got destroyed by those who CAN and did.

Another view here is that a mockingbird is a symbol of innocence. To kill a mockingbird would then mean to kill the innocence. This is seen when Scout and Jem started out as innocent kids in the story who think that everyone is good. They were later exposed to evil. Scout was able to keep on seeing the good side of human nature. For Jem who believed in justice and the goodness in mankind, and then realizing that what he believed in isn’t true because mankind is evil etc, Jem lost hope in mankind. So in Jem, the mockingbird here is the innocence, the belief that man is good. And it’s a sin to kill this mockingbird (the faith in Mankind) because when Jem realized that man isn’t good, he lost faith in his belief in justice and humanity. Here, the song that is sung by the mockingbird is the belief in justice and humanity. The bird stops singing. Jem stopped believing. And who destroyed the mocking bird in Jem? The world…by the people.

I’m only 3 chapters away from finishing the book but I decided not to continue reading it. I’m not sure if my interpretation is correct or its what the author intended in the story. Well, I hope this helped somehow.