mockingbird motif

In the beginning of the year, a had only a primary understanding of what "motif" was. After reading To Kill a Mockingbird, I know have a broader understanding of the term. Yay. I guess getting an actual example helped. The main motif in the novel, is, well, the mockingbird motif. It represents that we shouldn't accuse innocent people of kill them-like you shouldn't kill a mockingbird because it's an innocent songbird and it didn't do anything.

"'Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?'" Scout said this when she was trying to tell Atticus that she understood what had happened after Bob Ewell had attacked them. The mockingbird motif represents how it's a sin to accuse someone innocent. Boo Radley and Tom Robinson were the main "mockingbirds" in the novel. The night that Bob Ewell attacked Jem and Scout, Boo Radley came and saved them by stabbing the attacker. Boo, hadn't barely ever come out of his house, so he wouldn't really have been be "able" commit the crime. If they put him in court, it would be like killing an innocent one. Pointless. Tom Robinson was a dead man the minute the trial began. This was because of the prejudice trials they had in this time period. If a black person was accused of something and the case went to court, they would almost automatically be either sent to prison or they received the death penalty.The motif highlighted the theme of children's innocence and also many other themes of the novel.