Examples Of My Favorite Things To Kill A Mockingbird

Favorite things are quite odd, are they not? For every so often, as you mature and age, your favorite things can change quite drastically. During an ice breaker in school you could be asked what your favorite color is and without thinking you say blue, but actually it might be yellow and then bam you’re thrown off the Bridge of Death and into the Gorge of Eternal Peril. Or maybe you’ll just be embarrassed to be in front of the class, neither option a good option. Some people claim that they don’t actually have favorite things, like teachers, but they totally really do (I’m looking at you Mrs. ). I’ve noticed that my favorite things currently are very different from my favorite things from when I was younger, and very different from my family’s.
I love books and I have read hundreds of books in my life, actually it might be closer to thousands now, but the one book that I can read over and over again without it becoming boring is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Maybe it is the simple but elegant language, the Deep South setting, the underlying metaphors and morals. Or maybe it is the strong characters and their many adventures, but I love this book with all of my heart. The moment I turn 18 and am legally allowed to get a tattoo, I will be getting a tattoo with the words “It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” I’m not very big on poems, but I do enjoy reading poems from Maya Angelou. In middle school, I did a project on her and I thought I would hate it, given the fact that it was a school assignment, but as I began to read her work I saw the complexity that went into crafting the poem. Each word carefully chosen to best display the range of emotions portrayed in every poem, in everything that she wrote. As far as musicians go my favorite band is Creedence Clearwater Revival, I love it for the distinct southern sound without being overly country or