Essay Number 10

Around and Around:

An Essay about Circles in To Kill a Mockingbird and My life

An Essay by Gaelen Frink

Eighth Grade English

Pine Point School

January 31, 2011

(TS)Circles and To Kill a Mockingbird go around and around; topics come up at one point in the story and then again later as they complete a circle. (SD) Mockingbirds at the beginning of the book came up and the title is To Kill a Mockingbird.  (CM1) When Jem and Scout received their air guns Atticus told Jem “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (CM2) Mockingbirds also came up later in the book when Jem and scout were leaving for the pageant they heard “a solitary mocker who poured out his repertoire.”  (SD) Loneliness is a recurring topic in To Kill a Mockingbird because it resurfaces many times. (CM1) In Chapter 14 Dill experiences great loneliness because of his parent’s lack of love and the fact that “they just weren’t interested in [him]” (CM2) When Jem turned twelve everything seemed to change; his relationship with his sister, the way he acts and just what he does is different. (CM3) Since this change Scout experienced a type of loneliness, but she learned to deal with this and she also learned that Jem is still her brother. (SD) Curiosity is another theme that keeps coming up, it recurs many times. (CM1) Curiosity led Jem and Scout into many discoveries throughout the whole book these discoveries are, physical and mental. (CM2)