What Really Is the Mockingbird?

What exactly do you think the mockingbird of this story is? Is it the innocence of the children in the racist South? Is it Tom Robinson, Scout, Boo Radley? Are there many or few? What exactly qualifies these people/things to be mockingbirds?

Why Do You Do That?

Some people cover up who they really are just so people will talk about them. So people will have something to talk about. A good example would be Mr. Dolphus Raymond. He carries around a paper sack and the folks of Maycomb assume that it is alcohol. When it is, in fact, just regular Coca-cola. He does not drink.He comes to town acting like he is drunk to give soemthing to talk about.
The reason Dolphus Raymond carried it around was because he thinks that it is a good reason to "give em hell". Them refers to Maycomb County.
It really makes you think about our society and the way people really are. I mean people do things and say things and act a certain way just so they are talked aboult. This is especailly something that happens in high school. People do things just for attention. But I guess thats just the way people want to live their lives.
Like Mr. Raymond said "They could never- never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I like to live."(201).
=] just something for yall to think about.

Call me Cliche..Theme

The theme coming of age actually made this cook mroe interesting i think. watching these two kids growing up in a small town and just watching them mature, and learn somehow made the book more interesting i thought. i also really liked how you see that if you have don't judge kids and try to teach them wisdom at a young age liek Atticus did, you see how amture Scout and Jem become at such a young age. they start alreayd understanding racism, how people act, how kids can be judged, at such a young age they already understand topics some people are trying to still figure out in highschool. what do you all think about this???? But i liked seeing them mature in this book and just watching two kids in an older society and how they lived. overall this book may not have been exciting but parts were interesting and it ended up not being completely boring and had some good points

How Has the Trial Changed the Characters?

Scout started out as a younge girl who knows nothing about the world outside her own, but now she is very aware of the world. She has changed in so many ways because of the trial. I wonder if she would have changed so much even if the trial never happened? She has learned that your skin has everything to do with living. Blacks have to work hard just to live and survive. Scout now understands this , but would she have know it just as soon if there was no trial?

Better Late Than Never

I have been reading this story under the impression that dear old Aunty Alexandra was someone to dread. I never fully got her importance until i was reading Chapter 24, during the ladies' meeting, that I realized that she is, in fact, a lady.
Now being a lady doesn't only mean you wear pretty clothes, always smell nice, speak swetly and so on. Being a lady means you stand up for what is right for your name, you always support your kin, you deal with things in the proper manner. Generally a lady puts on a show for everyone that she has a background as is proud of it, dwindling though it may be.
Aunty had a change at heart. We saw a softer side of her in chapter twenty four with the death of Tom Robinson. Ever since that change has occurred, Alexandra has seemed wiser and more sincere. I think her purpose for being in the story has finally showed itself. And quite frankly, I'm glad.

Who killed the mockingbird?

When you think of Tom Robinson as a mockingbird of the story and how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Who killed the mockingbird? Did the guards kill the mockingbird, did Tom kill himself when he tried to run. Or is Maycolm county to blame for killing the mockingbird by convicting him guilty.

The Right to a Fair Trial and a Jury of Your Peers

Does anyone else think that the result of the trial had something to do with the fact that there were Cunninghams on the jury? It's like Jem said, "Can't any Christain judges an' lawyers make up for heathen juries..." It just doesn't seem like Tom was set up for a fair trial.