To Kill A Mockingbird Theme, Motifs, Symbols

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  • guest4621cc guest4621cc 1 month ago
    This is the biggest piece of CRAP EVER

    I should SEW YOU for plagurism
  • guest4621cc guest4621cc 1 month ago
    horrible
  • guestf43c2c7 guestf43c2c7 1 month ago
    lol, what is this crap?
    all you did was copy and paste and add some text affects
    i dont know why this is even published
  • guest1e4358 guest1e4358 1 month ago
    plagiariser!!!!
    don't copy other websites
  • guestf560b5 guestf560b5 1 month ago
    Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God
    I don't know but today seems kinda odd
    No barking from the dogs, no smog
    And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog
    I got my grub on, but didn't pig out
    Finally got a call from a girl wanna dig out
    Hooked it up on later as I hit the do'
    Thinking will i live, another twenty-fo'
    I gotta go cause I got me a drop top
    And if I hit the switch, I can make the ass drop
    Had to stop at a red light
    Looking in my mirror not a jacker in sight
    And everything is alright
    I got a beep from Kim and she can f**k all night
    Called up the homies and I'm askin y'all
    Which park, are y'all playin basketball?
    Get me on the court and I'm trouble
    Last week fucked around and got a triple double
    Freaking niggaz everyway like M.J.
    I can't believe, today was a good day

    Drove to the pad and hit the showers
    Didn't even get no static from the cowards
    Cause just yesterday them fools tried to blast me
    Saw the police and they rolled right past me
    No flexin, didn't even look in a niggaz direction
    as I ran the intersection
    Went to $hort Dog's house, they was watchin Yo! MTV Raps
    What's the haps on the craps
    Shake em up, shake em up, shake em up, shake em
    Roll em in a circle of niggaz and watch me break em
    With the seven, seven-eleven, seven-eleven
    Seven even back do' lil Joe I picked up the cash flow
    Then we played bones, and I'm yellin domino.
    Plus nobody I know got killed in South Central L.A.
    Today was a good day

    Left my niggaz house paid
    Picked up a girl been tryin to fuck since the twelve grade
    It's ironic, I had the brew she had the chronic
    The Lakers beat the Supersonics I felt on the big fat fanny
    Pulled out the jammy, and killed the punanny
    And my dick runs deep so deep so deep
    put her ass to sleep
    Woke her up around one
    she didn't hesitate, to call Ice Cube the top gun
    Drove her to the pad and I'm coasting
    Took another sip of the potion hit the three-wheel motion
    I was glad everything had worked out
    Dropped her ass off, then I chirped out
    Today was like one of those fly dreams
    Didn't even see a berry flashing those high beams
    No helicopter looking for a murder
    Two in the morning got the fat burger
    Even saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp
    And it read Ice Cube's a pimp
    Drunk as hell but no throwing up
    Half way home and my pager still blowing up
    Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.
    I got to say it was a good day.

    Hey wait, wait a minute Pooh
    Stop the shit
    What the fuck am I thinking about?
  • guestd47b42 guestd47b42 2 months ago
    exactly from sparknotes...no help at all....but I like the slideshow
  • guest35c9c2 guest35c9c2 2 months ago
    yeah, this is exactly from sparknotes...
  • guest7617c3 guest7617c3 4 months ago
    this is taken exactly from sparknotes...
  • guest1f7ca guest1f7ca 8 months ago
    VERY EYE CATCHING
  • lcampos lcampos 10 months ago
    I teach students with Severe and Profound Disabilities. We are reading (an adapted version) of the book. I have made a powerpoint of the book and I am currently making communication cards and activities for my students. I'd love to use your slideshow. Can I get a copy of it? lcampos@mcsdga.net

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  1. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
  2. Themes, Motifs & Symbols Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.
    • The Coexistence of Good and Evil
    • The most important theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is the book’s exploration of the moral nature of human beings—that is, whether people are essentially good or essentially evil.
    • Scout and Jems assume that people are good because they have never seen evil, and must incorporate it into their understanding of the world.
    • One of the book’s important sub themes involves the threat that hatred, prejudice, and ignorance pose to the innocent: people such as Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are not prepared for the evil that they encounter, and, as a result, they are destroyed.
    • Even Jem is victimized to an extent by his discovery of the evil of racism during and after the trial.
    • Whereas Scout is able to maintain her basic faith in human nature despite Tom’s conviction, Jem’s faith in justice and in humanity is badly damaged, and he retreats into a state of disillusionment.
    • The moral voice of To Kill a Mockingbird is embodied by Atticus Finch , who is virtually unique in the novel in that he has experienced and understood evil without losing his faith in the human capacity for goodness.
    • Atticus understands that, rather than being simply creatures of good or creatures of evil, most people have both good and bad qualities.
    • The important thing is to appreciate the good qualities and understand the bad qualities by treating others with sympathy and trying to see life from their perspective.
    • He tries to teach this ultimate moral lesson to Jem and Scout to show them that it is possible to live with conscience without losing hope or becoming cynical ( human conduct is motivated primarily by self-interest ).
    • In this way, Atticus is able to admire Mrs. Dubose’s courage even while deploring her racism.
    • Scout’s progress as a character in the novel is defined by her gradual development toward understanding Atticus’s lessons , in the final chapters, Scout at last sees Boo Radley as a human being.
    • Her newfound ability to view the world from his perspective ensures that she will not become jaded as she loses her innocence.
    • The Importance of Moral Education
    • Because exploration of the novel’s larger moral questions takes place within the perspective of children, the education of children is necessarily involved in the development of all of the novel’s themes.
    • In a sense, the plot of the story charts Scout’s moral education, and the theme of how children are educated—how they are taught to move from innocence to . (at the end of the book, Scout even says that she has learned practically everything except algebra).
    • This theme is explored most powerfully through the relationship between Atticus and his children, as he devotes himself to instilling a social conscience in Jem and Scout.
    • The scenes at school provide a direct counterpoint to Atticus’s effective education of his children:
    • Scout is frequently confronted with teachers who are either frustratingly unsympathetic to children’s needs or morally hypocritical.
    • As is true of To Kill a Mockingbird ’s other moral themes, the novel’s conclusion about education is that the most important lessons are those of sympathy and understanding, and that a sympathetic, understanding approach is the best way to teach these lessons.
    • In this way, Atticus’s ability to put himself in his children’s shoes makes him an excellent teacher, while Miss Caroline’s rigid commitment to the educational techniques that she learned in college makes her ineffective and even dangerous.
    • The Existence of Social Inequality
    • Differences in social status are explored largely through the overcomplicated social hierarchy of Maycomb, the ins and outs of which constantly baffle the children.
    • The relatively well-off Finches stand near the top of Maycomb’s social hierarchy, with most of the townspeople beneath them.
    • Ignorant country farmers like the Cunninghams lie below the townspeople, and the white trash Ewells rest below the Cunninghams.
    • But the black community in Maycomb, despite its abundance of admirable qualities, squats below even the Ewells, enabling Bob Ewell to make up for his own lack of importance by persecuting Tom Robinson.
    • These rigid social divisions that make up so much of the adult world are revealed in the book to be both irrational and destructive.
    • For example, Scout cannot understand why Aunt Alexandra refuses to let her be friends with young Walter Cunningham.
    • Lee uses the children’s perplexity at the unpleasant layering of Maycomb society to critique the role of class status and, ultimately, prejudice in human interaction.
  3. Motifs
    • Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.
    • Gothic Details
    • The forces of good and evil in To Kill a Mockingbird seem larger than the small Southern town in which the story takes place.
    • Lee adds drama and atmosphere to her story by including a number of Gothic details in the setting and the plot.
    • In literature, the term Gothic refers to a style of fiction first popularized in eighteenth-century England, featuring supernatural occurrences, gloomy and haunted settings, full moons, and so on.
    • Among the Gothic elements in To Kill a Mockingbird are the unnatural snowfall, the fire that destroys Miss Maudie’s house, the children’s superstitions about Boo Radley, the mad dog that Atticus shoots, and the ominous night of the Halloween party on which Bob Ewell attacks the children.
    • These elements, out of place in the normally quiet, predictable Maycomb, create tension in the novel and serve to foreshadow the troublesome events of the trial and its aftermath.
    • Small-Town Life
    • Counterbalancing the Gothic motif of the story is the motif of old-fashioned, small-town values, which manifest themselves throughout the novel.
    • As if to contrast with all of the suspense and moral grandeur of the book, Lee emphasizes the slow-paced, good-natured feel of life in Maycomb.
    • She often deliberately juxtaposes small-town values and Gothic images in order to examine more closely the forces of good and evil.
    • The horror of the fire, for instance, is made to seem not as bad by the comforting scene of the people of Maycomb banding together to save Miss Maudie’s possessions.
    • In contrast, Bob Ewell’s cowardly attack on the defenseless Scout, who is dressed like a giant ham for the school pageant, shows him to be unredeemably evil.
  4. Symbols
    • Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.
    • Mockingbirds
    • The title of To Kill a Mockingbird has very little literal connection to the plot, but it carries a great deal of symbolic weight in the book.
    • In this story of innocents destroyed by evil, the “mockingbird” comes to represent the idea of innocence.
    • Thus, to kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence.
    • Throughout the book, a number of characters (Jem, Tom Robinson, Dill, Boo Radley, Mr. Raymond) can be identified as mockingbirds—innocents who have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil.
    • This connection between the novel’s title and its main theme is made explicit several times in the novel:
    • After Tom Robinson is shot, Mr. Underwood compares his death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds,” and at the end of the book Scout thinks that hurting Boo Radley would be like “shootin’ a mockingbird.”
    • Most important, Miss Maudie explains to Scout: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but . . . sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
    • Other characters in the novel are also mockingbirds:
    • 1. Atticus: He is ridiculed and publicly humiliated because he chose to defend a negro. The people of Maycomb conveniently forget the reputation for fairness and justice that Atticus has built for himself over the years and viciously attack him for continuing to be fair and just
    • 2. Helen Robinson: She tries her best to bring up her family after Tom’s death but is pestered by the Ewell’s and ignored by the "do-gooders".
    • 3. Mrs. Dubose: She is hated by the children, who cannot understand that her meanness is just her way of forgetting her pain.
    • 4. Miss Maudie: She loves her flowers and spends most of her time taking care of them. For this, certain religious people say she belongs to the devil.
    • 5. Calpurnia: She must not behave in her natural way when among her own people. Also, she is in danger of being fired because of her "influence on the children": she is unfortunately black.
    • 6. Miss Caroline Fisher: She experiences difficulties during her first year teaching because she has come from away and does not understand the ways of the Maycomb people.
    • 7. Mayella Ewell: Mayella is a victim of family circumstances. Because of her father she is poor and friendless. It is no doubt her loneliness that causes to try to seduce Tom Robinson.
    • 8. The Cunninghams: Through no fault of their own they are poor and suffer as the victims of that poverty. Despite this, they are hardworking and proud.
    • 9. Dill: He is sent away to Maycomb every summer, apparently because his parents are separated and his mother wants her freedom.
    • 10. Jem and Scout: They are taunted and insulted because their father is defending a negro. Bob Ewell even tries to kill them. Both are innocent victims who are caused to suffer through no fault of their own.
    • Boo Radley
    • As the novel progresses, the children’s changing attitude toward Boo Radley is an important measurement of their development from innocence toward a grown-up moral perspective.
    • At the beginning of the book, Boo is merely a source of childhood superstition.
    • As he leaves Jem and Scout presents and mends Jem’s pants, he gradually becomes increasingly and intriguingly real to them.
    • At the end of the novel, he becomes fully human to Scout, illustrating that she has developed into a sympathetic and understanding individual.
    • Boo, an intelligent child ruined by a cruel father, is one of the book’s most important mockingbirds; he is also an important symbol of the good that exists within people.
    • Despite the pain that Boo has suffered, the purity of his heart rules his interaction with the children.
    • In saving Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell, Boo proves to be the ultimate symbol of good.

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