mockingbird

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The brilliance in To Kill a Mockingbird is the way it makes us feel the confusion felt by a six year old looking at an adult world.

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Any of various long-tailed American songbirds of the genera Mimus and Melanotis, noted for their ability to mimic calls of other birds.

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noun

Any of various long-tailed American songbirds of the genera Mimus and Melanotis, noted for their ability to mimic calls of other birds.

noun

(archaic) Synonym of tui (“a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”).

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Core meanings and parts of speech for mockingbird.

noun

Any of various long-tailed American songbirds of the genera Mimus and Melanotis, noted for their ability to mimic calls of other birds.

noun

(archaic) Synonym of tui (“a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”).

Example sentences

The brilliance in To Kill a Mockingbird is the way it makes us feel the confusion felt by a six year old looking at an adult world.

Although in fairness, it does not seem that Mockingbird is terribly useful for visually-disabled users in any case.

To Kill a Mockingbird perpetuates the idea that women make false rape accusations.

I'm also curious to know if this second book pulls as heavily from her life experiences as mockingbird did.

But if you think To Kill a Mockingbird no longer has relevance to racial issues across the US, I'm going to guess you're white.

In which case, civil asset forfeiture dates back to maritime law, NSA has been documented to intercept ingoing telegraphs as far back as 1945, Operation Mockingbird had the CIA meddle with U.

Actually, To Kill a Mockingbird perpetuates the idea that racist drunken white dads in the deep south in that era made false accusations and beat their daughters when their daughters hit on black men.

She filed a lawsuit in 2007 against the son-in-law of her former agent, claiming that he took advantage of her mental state during her recovery and duped her into assigning him the copyright to To Kill a Mockingbird [1].

Racial slurs, profanity, and blunt dialogue about rape have led people to challenge its appropriateness in libraries and classrooms so often that, today, the American Library Association reports that To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most challenged classics of all time and still ranks at number 21 of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 2000–2009.

Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that To Kill a Mockingbird spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners ~ Harper Lee You need to read it again bub.

Quote examples

Say what you will about those books, they're not necessarily essay-ready in the same way "To Kill A Mockingbird" is.

The best book to slowly work through is "To Mock a Mockingbird", by Raymond Smullyan.

In fact, this was the original book before "To Kill a Mockingbird" was written.

It seems everybody here loves "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Proper noun examples

Mockingbird is such a poignant book because of how well it captures a certain period in american history.

There's nothing unfortunate about acknowledging the racial themes in To Kill A Mockingbird, and doing so doesn't diminish any of the other messages.

I do hope there's nothing untoward going on here and that this book lives up to the legacy of To Kill a Mockingbird, but the possibility is at least worth examining.