Friday, November 20, 2009

Mockingbird Motif

When I was doing the summer reading assignment for Honors English, I had no idea what the word motif even meant. And starting Honors English was the hardest thing to do because I didn't understand any of those big meaningful words. We moved on so quickly and I knew I was getting left behind in the gigantic, smart-word, dictionary dust the rest of the class left for me, to choke on and slowly fade away to nothing under their feet. So as I'm the turtle in this 1000 meters/second, Mrs. Gilman announces to the class that we are starting a new book. Oh great! Just the thing I had been hoping for, right? WRONG! Just more motif and tone stuff to deal with! But I was very surprised when I actually could annotate the book! Doesn't mean I did well, but how awesome is that! So trying to not get off topic, I am getting to my point in this paragraph. After I read To Kill a Mockingbird, I finally could understand in depth of the great wonders of motif!
After Linnaea told me what the mokingbird meant, I finally got it! The mokingbird is a symbol for an innocent person. And it's a sin to kill a innocent person. Now dont think that means just physically and you can go killing people's feelings like crazy, it means if you harm an innocent person in any way, it is a sin. And karma's going come back and hit you right in the backside for your wrongdoing (Wow! Big word!)!

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