To Kill a Mockingbird

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.