Comparative Analysis: To Kill a Mockingbird and Marigolds
Growing up is something that everyone has to go through. They say that ignorance is bliss. When you 're a child, you do not have the knowledge of how everything in the world works, how people work. However, as you start growing up you realize things are not as black and white as you thought they were. Just like every child growing up, the main characters in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird" and Marigolds experience new morals and how the real world works as they are growing up. This brings the inner conflict as they try to figure what is right and what is wrong with these new morals. However, that is all part of the theme of the two stories, which is growing up. To Kill a Mockingbird and Marigolds address the thematic concept of growing up through the use of figurative language, point of view, and characterization. Their genre of a fictional story shows when the thematic concepts that are used have very similar examples.
To Kill a Mockingbird and Marigolds share a similar use of figurative language. Both stories are able to use multiple forms of idioms, synonyms, metaphors, and symbolism to help describe the events in a way that they enhance the theme of the story. Symbolism is done in To Kill a Mockingbird by the mockingbird. The book states, “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Harper Lee, 1960, p. 119) Throughout the story, the mockingbird can be compared to Jem Finch and Tom Robinson. Jem is growing up and is starting to learn how the world actually is. That everything isn’t as black and white as he thought it was. Tom Robinson was an innocent man, yet he was still killed for something he did not commit. Likewise, a similar use of symbolism occurs in
To Kill a Mockingbird and Marigolds share a similar use of figurative language. Both stories are able to use multiple forms of idioms, synonyms, metaphors, and symbolism to help describe the events in a way that they enhance the theme of the story. Symbolism is done in To Kill a Mockingbird by the mockingbird. The book states, “Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Harper Lee, 1960, p. 119) Throughout the story, the mockingbird can be compared to Jem Finch and Tom Robinson. Jem is growing up and is starting to learn how the world actually is. That everything isn’t as black and white as he thought it was. Tom Robinson was an innocent man, yet he was still killed for something he did not commit. Likewise, a similar use of symbolism occurs in