To Kill A Mockingbird

If there was a book that easily tackles topics and a must-read for young readers then To Kill A Mockingbird would fit it. Harper Lee created To Kill A Mockingbird in the 1960s, The book is set in the 1930s in the Great Depression through the eyes of a child. The book has a lot of themes throughout the story using literary elements but how the author uses these literary elements like juxtaposition, motifs, and imagery to prove themes like humbleness, innocent of people and how unjust the society is will be explained.

Harper Lee is great using literary elements to make themes like using juxtaposition to build a theme of humbleness. In chapter 12, after Calpurnia brings them to her church she says how “folks don’t like to have somebody around known more than they do, It aggravates’em” (Lee 167). Even after the fact she one of four people in her church who are literate Calpurnia knows being modest is better than bragging about it. Someone who isn’t would be Aunt Alexandra. In chapter 13, it talks about Aunt Alexandra and how “she never let a chance escape …show more content…
In chapter 25, Mr.Underwood newspaper “likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds” (Lee 323). Songbirds being the mockingbirds and their implication of being a sin to kill puts tom’s death being unjust and evil because all he did was nothing. Another would be In Chapter 29, after being told by Atticus to believe Mr.Underwood story, Scott's reassurance Atticus by saying “well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” (Lee 370). Scotts understand that if she told the truth then Boo Radley wouldn’t have a place to stay and be away from people, thus relating to how mockingbirds are a sin to kill. The idea of the mockingbird relating to innocent people construct the theme of being wrong to hurt or kill them for no matter the reason because all they do is