It's a Sin To Kill a Mockingbird

"I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever hear Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "You're father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mocking bird."

This scene has an importance in the book. The author had placed this scene inside the book for a reason, hence the title "To Kill a Mockingbird." A mockingbird is a singsong bird that will hum tunes back to you once heard. They are very innocent animals. Miss Maudie states, "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mocking bird." It is a sin to kill something with great innocence and does you no harm.

Jem and Scout portray mockingbirds in my opinion. The two children are very innocent and haven't done any harm to anyone. Bob Ewell being the sinful person, attempts to shoot the mockingbirds. He sinned. It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they don't do any wrong to you. They keep to themselves. No point is showed by trying to kill something that causes no harm. These two young kids would have been destroyed. Bob Ewell tried to destroy not one, but two mockingbirds.  Jem and Scout are taking place of mockingbirds in the scene of Bob Ewell attempting to shoot them. I am pretty sure he needs to get the message that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.

A version of the mockingbird, is the mockingjay in The Hunger Games. The name mockingjay comes from the jabberjays which repeat the same singsong tune as mockingbirds. A combination of both names hence "mockingjay." Some (the capital) view  Katniss as someone who is "bad" and causes trouble or inconvenience. The mockingjay in the book does that. She is supposed to do that. But, the only people it inconveniences is the ones from the capital. The capital doesn't get their way with a mockingjay around. Katniss is a rebel. When you rebel, it is when you go against the rules. She does do that but she doesn't rebel for the bad, only the common good. If the mockingjay got her way, then all of the districts would get along and would have a better lifestyle/living situation. The way she hopes it would be, would establish peace among those of all districts.

In The Hunger Games, Katniss wasn't born wanting to rebel against the capital. She was just a girl from District 12. She had strong beliefs but never considered having an army fight against the ones who built them up but at the same time, tearing them down in a huge way. The capital is making their people sob over their innocent children being forced to participate in a fight to their death, most suffering for days before. These children not doing anything wrong, are reaped into a horrible situation of the Hunger Games at random draw. This is why they need a mockingjay. Someone who will take a stance against the capital without being killed on the spot. Katniss didn't have a plan to begin with, but she grew smarter throughout the fight to her near death. Everything fell into her hands as she won the Games and showed the capital who was in charge.

Katniss had no idea that the capital was angered with her about the stunt she pulled, allowing there to be two victors. She became well aware of things and was very cautious about what she did and said from then on. The capital would not be able to destroy her. The capital is the ones who turned her into what she became. The capital turned her into the mockingjay. It was all their fault. Now, Katniss had to finish what she had started. Starting as an innocent child, her life became so much different. The moment she became aware of reality.

The capital was killing the districts mockingbirds. The symbol of innocence. Killing them for their pleasure of so called "what is fair". If you were to see a five year old at a restaurant, you would think they intend no wrong to people and not the urge to get rid of them. Both Bob Ewell and the capital have both killed and attempted to kill mockingbirds. Innocent children. Jem and Scout and the people of Districts 1-12. The symbol of no wrong, they kill mockingbirds. And it is a "sin to kill a mockingbird"