| Mockingbird |
| Mockingjay |
To Kill a
Mockingjay….. Wait Mockingbird.
Now those of us
who have read this book know that the Mockingbird differs very much from the
Mockingjay that we all know and love, thanks to Hunger Games, but anyways back
to Mockingjay…. Bird sorry.
So many schools
are thinking about banning this book, and it’s all because of more modern
literature that they want to bring in, like Hunger
Games, now in my personal opinion I would love this if I actually got a
chance to read that series and all for school credit! However, To Kill a
Mockingbird actually had some pretty good lessons that you could learn from
this book.
Much like Hunger
Games, To Kill a Mockingbird focus on the family and staying together through
the thick and thin no matter who is trying to kill you and your family. Like
Katniss fighting for her life among the arena, poor little Scout has to fight
her way through the social world that surrounds her family and the catastrophe
of her father losing his first case, the trial of a black man, Tom Robinson,
for raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell (which is totally false). Once the trial
is finished neither side is happy with the results, Tom gets put in prison, and
Bob Ewell, the father of Mayella, his reputation (what was left of it) gets
thrown down the garbage. So Bob then threatens Atticus and his family’s life
and this is where Scout has to figure out how to protect herself.
Now let’s think
back onto the Hunger Games, anyone remember who Katniss’ main enemy was? That’s
right! CATO!!!!! Who is Scouts’ main enemy? Anyone? Well I’ll say it for you, its
Bob Ewell…. Eghh. Yeah he’s not the best guy to have chasing you around in the
dark. With a knife. While your dressed as a ham. And your older brother is on
the ground with a broken arm… Needless to say Scout vanquishes her foe! Well sort
of, Boo Radley, creepy next door neighbor, comes and does the dirty work, stabbing
him, for Scout.
So now after I’ve
bored you with endless streams of mixing and matching the Hunger Games to Kill
a Mockingbird, showing you how certain things match up and how they are useful
to us. But, hey I did do one thing right!
Do you know what
that was????
Didn’t think so!
HA!!!
Neither do I so I
guess we’re both even.
But back to the
boring story about people running around killing each other in a stupid arena.
Mocking…jays? Wait wrong story.
So back to the
boring story of saving your family and never giving up. To Kill a Mockingbird
thingy I don’t even know what it is anymore. So in the end I guess schools
should enforce this book more in public schools. Since all I can remember is
Katniss. We do need some more of this so that we can be thankful that we didn’t
grow up back then.
