The mockingbird motif in To Kill a Mockingbird was that you shouldn't kill or hurt someone that is innocent of the crime. For example: Boo Radley saving the children and Tom Robinson not raping Mayella Ewell but still being convicted, even though everybody knew it was wrong. This adds meaning to ther themes in the novel, like loss of innocence/ growing up. The kids learned about all the evil that goes on in the world and the world isn't as safe as they thought it would be.
This motif helped me get a better insight of what a motif means by making it clear to me what the motif was, what it did, and why. It showed me how it supports major themes and why motifs are so important to writing. If motifs weren't in writing, writing wouldn't come up to it's full potential. This is the first time I have recognized a motif in writing so clearly.
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