To Kill A Mockingbird Book Analysis

Mockingbird is a realistic fiction book by Kathryn Erskine. It is told by and revolves around a ten year old girl with Asperger’s Syndrome, Caitlin. She sees life in a different, confusing way, but her brother Devon guides her through it. When Devon dies into a devastating school shooting, Caitlin doesn’t know how to deal with this tragedy. In this book, she searches for ‘closure’ ( The act of bringing to an end; a conclusion). While searching, her character develops empathy and she learns how to make friends. Finally, Caitlin finds closure by finishing Devon’s unfinished Eagle Scout project for Boy Scouts. Mockingbird allows readers to step inside the shoes of a young girl with autism so we can understand each other better.

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I don’t think the title fits because only a small portion of the book focused on the actual school shooting. The book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, is mentioned quite a lot throughout the book. The book title of Mockingbird is deliberately similar to To KIll a Mockingbird One of the morals of To Kill a Mockingbird is to not hurt innocent people. In the school shooting where Devon was shot, innocent people were killed. However, the book focused more on closure than the school shooting. If the book revolved around the school shooting and not how Caitlin finds closure, the title ‘Mockingbird’ would be appropriate since one of the morals of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is not to harm innocent people, which the shooters
You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colour. Books are not like people. Books are safe’ that she might be referring to her classmates and Devon. Meaning that Devon can be alive and thriving one day, and be only a lifeless body the next day. People can change, unlike books. Books stay the same and say the same words, no matter what. When she said, ‘ And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures never change.’, I think she’s dislikes changes and thinks its ‘unsafe’ when people change(‘ Books are not like people. Books are safe’). It’s a known behavior of people with Aspergers to like routines. We live in a world that is constantly changing, and everything is extremely unpredictable. Unpredictability is something that is very difficult for autistic people.
I think Devon started crying when Caitlin yelled ‘SHE’S DEAD AND SHE’S NEVER COMING BACK’ while watching Bambi because it reminded him that his mother is dead and never coming back. Of course, losing a loved one is a tragedy and remembering it made Devon start