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To Kill a Mockingbird Songs
Don't Matter: Akon - The society didn't want to see the African Americans and White folks living together. However, some wanted to be equal. Talk about the prejudice and how separated they two were and how some tried to stay equal. (Atticus and Calpurnia, and Scout and Jem sitting with the African Americans during the trial are two examples.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIktHTbtn2o

Tiptoe: Imagine Dragons- In Maycomb County, everyone always kind of sneaks around, never letting anyone really know what they're up to, so in a way they're always tiptoeing and never letting anyone know that they're there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajjj4pLnjz8

Little Bird: Ed Sheeran- A way this can Relate to "to kill a mockingbird" i by saying that if you do reckless things without thinking, you'll often regret the. Like when he says "And its not complete yet, mustn't get our feet wet,
Cause that leads to regret, diving in too soon" he's saying that you need to really plan out and think before diving head over heels in something, and that's exactly what Atticus did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkscjEBaEPc

Atticus: The Noisettes- In the beginning it says "to kill a mockingbird is to silence the song that seduces you why?" Which is saying that when you kill the free flying, joy-bringing mockingbird, you're silencing it forever and selfishly ridding the world of a happiness that it could have potentially brought to others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH9pD6r3KlE

Waiting on the world to change: John Mayer- At one point he says "So we keep waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
We keep on waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change
It's hard to beat the system
When we're standing at a distance
So we keep waiting (waiting)
Waiting on the world to change" and by saying this he is relating it to how Scout and Jem are just kids and although they can grasp the concept somewhat of what is going on, they are too young to actually

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