Naturalist:
a. Do a research on the natural habitat of mockingbird. In your research, include the kind of flora and fauna you think exist in Maycomb and explain why the mockingbirds live in Maycomb.
Year-round the Northern Mockingbird is found in areas with open ground and with shrubby vegetation like hedges, fruiting bushes, and thickets. When foraging on the ground, it prefers grassy areas, rather than bare spots. Common places to find Northern Mockingbirds include parkland, cultivated land, suburban areas and in second growth habitat at low elevations.
This shows that the flora and fauna of Maycomb that exists include hedges, fruiting bushes and thickets, accompanied with a thick grass land and surbaban land with secondgrowth habitats for other animals. They also feed on mainly insects in summer but switch to eating mostly fruit in fall and winter. Among their animal prey are beetles, earthworms, moths, butterflies, ants, bees, wasps, grasshoppers, and sometimes small lizards. They eat a wide variety of berries, including from ornamental bushes, as well as fruits from multiflora rose. They’ve been seen drinking sap from the cuts on recently pruned trees.
The mockingbirds live in Maycomb because firstly, the mockingbirds are the main theme of the story and since the story is set in Maycomb, therefore, they must live in Maycomb, secondly, it has all the correct habitats and requirements of a correct habitat for a mockingbird to live. Thirdly, the food and fruits and insects found there, fit their taste.
Intrapersonal [pick one]:
a. Who would you want to be friends with in the novel? Explain.
I would want to be friends with Atticus because he is a noble and respectful hero in the novel who dares fights against all odds and any conventions and he also fights for what he thinks is right when he helped Tom Robinson in the court trial. He knew that Tom was innocent whereas others thought he was the person who raped Mayella Ewell. However, Atticus knew the truth and he had the courage to be the minority to fight for the rights of Tom and do what he thinks is right. This is what is innate in him: courage. He has the courage to do what others don’t do and what others think is wrong. This shows that he is a courageous person and a unique person. With this kind of characteristics , I would like to make friends with him as I would like to learn from his good character and his good personality, I would like to learn from him and look up to him as a role model. It would be good if I could become his good friend and mold me into a better person with all his good characteristics.
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