At long last, the title of the book actually does make sense. “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.” (pg 119) This picture is of a sad mockingbird. All the mockingbird tries to do is make somebody happy… anyone. However, the characters in the book (much like almost every human at some point) are too busy focusing on flaws of everything to actually stop and listen to the mockingbird’s song. It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird, and the mockingbird to me represents good intentions but ignorant people. It’s wrong to point fingers at people… to be judgmental without knowing the whole picture. Yet in the book, there are various cases of this ignorance (with Atticus, with Boo, and possibly with Tom Robinson). We’re all human, but sometimes we need to stop and think… there’s two sides to every story.
Wow! I love your last thought! The part when you said, “there’s two sides to every story,” depicts that one theme in the beginning about how you should imagine yourself in someone’s shoes before judging them. That part was about Boo Radley, too! :O
Anyways, HI STACEY!