To Kill A Mokingbird Assignment Naturalist Approach
Monday, March 1, 2010
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Mockingbird Reasearch Mockingbird: A species of New World passerine birds. Habitat: Residental areas, city parks, farmlands, open land, forests, woodland edges, farms and thickets. Food: Ripe berries and garden insects. Preferable: hackberries, mulberries, cherry and crab apples. I think that Maycomb in the To Kill A Mockingbird novel was a piece of open land with farmlands bordering the edge. I also expect to find thickets, berry bushes and trees in Maycomb. We should be able to find thickets as Mockingbirdslike to reside in thickets and the vegetation stated above. Also, we can see that there were trees in Maycomb from an incident that happened in the novel, Boo Radley left presents for the children in the knothole of a tree. We can also tell that Maycomb was built on fertile soil as there were people like the Cunninghams who were working as farmers. There is also another piece of evidence that shows that Maycomb has trees, this can be seen from: 'it was the wind rustling the trees. But there wasn't any wind and there weren't any trees except the big oak.' (Page 267) This shows that there were trees, even Oaks in Maycomb. In my opinion, I think that Mockingbirds live in Maycomb partially because there are people there. Mockingbirds, like any other animal may become dependant on humans and take food from us instead of finding their own food in the wild. Therefore, where humans go, the Mockingbirds will follow. Secondly, Maycomb is a open land and Mockingbirds like open land which has shurbs and thickets where they can reside in. This fits Maycomb exactly, besides, Maycomb would probably have lots of insects which Mockingbirds feed on as it has farmland nearby and farms attract insects. |
