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Cards in this deck (12)
- 1which characters can be identified as mockingbirds?Tom Robinson, Jem, Boo Radely, Dill
- innocents who have been wounded by their contact with evil - 2Tom robinson is like a mockingbirdwhen he is shot mr underwood compares his death to the
"senseless slaughter of songbirds" - 3what does miss maudie say about mockingbirds?"mockingbirds dont do one thing…but sing their hearts out for us. thats why its a sin to kill a mockingbird"
- 4at the end of the novel, how does scout refer to hurting boo radely?hurting him would be like
"shooting a mockingbird" - 5what does atticus say to gem and scout about mockingbirds? what do the blue jays represent here?"shoot all the bluejays you want but remember its a sin to kill a mocking bird"
the blue jays represent the bad people (ewells) - 6what main idea does the mockingbird portray?in the story of innocents destroyed by evil the mockingbird comes to represent the idea of INNOCENCE.
Therefore to kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence - 7what is 'Finch' a significant name for the family to have?finches are small birds, this indicates that the family are particularly vulnerable in the racist world of may comb which often treats the fragile innocence of childhood harshly
- 8how is boo presented at the start of the novel?he is merely a source of childhood superstition
"boo was about 6 and a half feet tall -judging from his tracks, he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch." - 9what does the children's changing attitude towards boo radely represent?its an important measurement of their development from innocence toward a grown-up, moral perspective
- 10how does boo gradually become more real to the children?by leaving them presents in the tree, fixing jems trousers and wrapping a blanket around scout during the fire
"You were so busy looking at the fire you didn't know it when he put the blanket around you." - 11what does boo represent?he is one of the novels most important mockingbirds; an important symbol of the good that exists within people.
despite the pain he has endured, the purity of his heart rules his interaction with the children - 12how does scout see him at the end of the novel?"Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidwalk, as any gentleman would do."
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- Flashcards on tkam symbols, created by bett barber on 03/05/2015.
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- bett barber · May 2015
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