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What is it to kill a mockingbird ? wether its black or white?
WHAT IS IT TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD? wheter its black or white?
I believe To Kill A Mockingbird is, in the end, a judgment, or a question, on human nature: Is it basically bad or basically good? If it's good, then moral questions - such as lying in order to save Boo Radley - are confronted and addressed. If it's bad, then we have to belive Sheriff Tate when he says, to the effect that there are some people in this world who ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot them. Bob Ewell was one of these. ///// Accordingly, if you posit a God, then you must posit a conscience and good and bad. Then you have to make decisions among very difficult circumstances. I believe that every human has this burden and responsibility.
that is alot of thinking. but i was referring to the quote in the book which quoted a common knowledge. to kill a mocking bird is a sin. because they sound beautiful and harm noone. it was meant as a little pun u see but i appreciate you had deep thinking about it. what is it to kill a mocking bird? a sin, it is.
as of the responsibility its simple. is there a responsibility towards life? every worm wants to live live live!!!! what right has a human to take away a life? just because noone will prosecute it? none. no right at all. respect the beauty of life. dont kill unless you wanna eat it.
Ms Kiss? heheheh. No look. im more burly than you think just refined
If you ask Atticus, killing a mockingbird was a sin. They do nothing but sing and bother nobody. (curiously, Atticus does not say that indiscriminate killing of other birds might be a sin.) The mockingbird equals Boo Radley. Boo, since the infamous stabbing of his father's leg years before, does nothing but good. Harper Lee equates Boo's outing as a hero with dying. In the end, it's all about making difficult moral choices. The first is a choice on human nature.
yes its a banality for teenies really. very simple very straight forward tehy just have to identify it as a key spot of the book.
harper lee couldve gone a tick further and implemented a metaphroe about the equality of mocking birds. i would have written one.fine.line.more. namely: ... killing a mockingbird is a sin, black or white. then the dumbest would have understood
my books spillover of these nuances for clarity, sometimes i hammer the book on the nose of the reader with some patronising things even
"To Kill A Mockingbird" is one example where the book is much better than the movie. The movie cuts out too much, including what I think is one of Scout's most important lines. In the last scene of the book, when she walks Boo Radley home and after he disappers into the house, she says something poignant and heart-grabbing: "I never saw him again." The movie, for reasons I don't understand, omits this line.
oh yes. that has gravity. also what movies cannot get well done is, you feel how they grow up literally, and it gets into the adult things from childhood. its nuanced but its there.
To Kill A Mockingbird is so very funny, so very tragic, and, in between, very serious.
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WHAT IS IT TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD? wheter its black or white?
I believe To Kill A Mockingbird is, in the end, a judgment, or a question, on human nature: Is it basically bad or basically good? If it's good, then moral questions - such as lying in order to save Boo Radley - are confronted and addressed. If it's bad, then we have to belive Sheriff Tate when he says, to the effect that there are some people in this world who ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot them. Bob Ewell was one of these. ///// Accordingly, if you posit a God, then you must posit a conscience and good and bad. Then you have to make decisions among very difficult circumstances. I believe that every human has this burden and responsibility.
that is alot of thinking. but i was referring to the quote in the book which quoted a common knowledge. to kill a mocking bird is a sin. because they sound beautiful and harm noone. it was meant as a little pun u see but i appreciate you had deep thinking about it. what is it to kill a mocking bird? a sin, it is.
as of the responsibility its simple. is there a responsibility towards life? every worm wants to live live live!!!! what right has a human to take away a life? just because noone will prosecute it? none. no right at all. respect the beauty of life. dont kill unless you wanna eat it.
Ms Kiss? heheheh. No look. im more burly than you think just refined
If you ask Atticus, killing a mockingbird was a sin. They do nothing but sing and bother nobody. (curiously, Atticus does not say that indiscriminate killing of other birds might be a sin.) The mockingbird equals Boo Radley. Boo, since the infamous stabbing of his father's leg years before, does nothing but good. Harper Lee equates Boo's outing as a hero with dying. In the end, it's all about making difficult moral choices. The first is a choice on human nature.
yes its a banality for teenies really. very simple very straight forward tehy just have to identify it as a key spot of the book.
harper lee couldve gone a tick further and implemented a metaphroe about the equality of mocking birds. i would have written one.fine.line.more. namely: ... killing a mockingbird is a sin, black or white. then the dumbest would have understood
my books spillover of these nuances for clarity, sometimes i hammer the book on the nose of the reader with some patronising things even
"To Kill A Mockingbird" is one example where the book is much better than the movie. The movie cuts out too much, including what I think is one of Scout's most important lines. In the last scene of the book, when she walks Boo Radley home and after he disappers into the house, she says something poignant and heart-grabbing: "I never saw him again." The movie, for reasons I don't understand, omits this line.
oh yes. that has gravity. also what movies cannot get well done is, you feel how they grow up literally, and it gets into the adult things from childhood. its nuanced but its there.
To Kill A Mockingbird is so very funny, so very tragic, and, in between, very serious.
