Part 2: Poem that reflects To Kill A Mockingbird.
I’m Nobody
I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
By: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
I chose this poem for To Kill A Mockingbird because it reminded me of how Boo Radley feels about staying secluded inside his house. I think Boo feels like a nobody because the whole town is against him and doesn’t care about him at all. When it talks about banishing the nobodies, it reminds me of how everyone in town is satisfied with Boo staying by himself. It also reminds me about how people were very quick to share their displeasure against Atticus when he started defending Tom Robinson.
