Mockingbird Motif

Reading TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD really enhanced my knowledge of "MOTIF" because in the beginning I had absolutely no clue what it meant and didn't really want to find out, reading Novel gave me a clear understanding of what it means and why some authors choose to put motif in their stories.
The Mockingbird motif is basically a meaning that its a sin to convict the innocent and blame your mistakes on them, just like its a sin to kill a mockingbird because they don't do anything bad, just good. This Motif really brings a symbolic meaning to other themes like prejudice and racism or justice vs injustice in this story because Tom Robinson, the main mockingbird in this story was convicted and sentenced to death, Tom was just like a Mockingbird, he was the only that actually treated Mayella like somebody but in turn she testified against him. It's a sin to kill a mockingbird, and Mayella killed the only Mockingbird had and ever will have.

Extra Credit

To me, I find that Mayella Ewell is like a sun in a solar system and her father is a black hole, the sun gives life to planets and does so much, Mayella gives so much to her family but gets nothing in return just like the sun, and gets sucked into a black hole to become something she doesn't want to be, just like how her father made her become during the trial

Life Lessons

to me a really big life lesson that kids really take likely is when your parents always nagg you about looking both ways before you cross the street, or double check everything I can personally relate to that because when I was younger my mom would always tell me to look both ways to make sure no cars came, surprisingly she still does it especially when I am in the car with her, everysingle time she would tell me " Always look both ways and make sure no car is near because most accidents happen when you rush" it gets really irritating but she is right as well. I finally realized the importance of that lesson when my dog died because it got ran over by a car, the dog was my favorite too and its really unfortunate that I had to loose something before I finally realized how important it was.