Thursday, October 23, 2008
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.
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I can explain this if anyone wants me too.
I think it is human nature that killed Tom. He wouldn't have been in jail and tempted to run if the jury hadn't condemned him with their own prejudice.
SPOILER!!! some people don't know this already?
Human nature didn't pull the trigger of the gun that shot him. Tom shouldn't have ran, but the town was in the wrong for convicting him.
u guys are spoilers
I agree with daydream believer, its human nature and predjuice that condemned Tom. I also think that there was nothing specific that condemned him, just a series of unlucky events and racist people.
I agree with daydream believer. Human nature can do some pretty mean things.
Exactly my point
If you think this is a spoiler, you are behind. we are supposed to have the book finished by monday anyways. And I am wondering to whether the mockingbird in this story was not Tom Robinson but maybe the innocense of the children. At the beggining of the book, Scout and Jem are just a couple of country kids who make up games and give their neighbors trouble. Now that it's almost over, their innocence is gone and they are acting more and more like adults everyday. it is just an opinion though..
Wait the mockingbird of the entire story is innocence. The innocence of multiple characters in the story. And the person who kills innocence(the mockingbird) is rasism simbolized by the trial and the Ewells.
I just had that realization.
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