Emma, an outgoing and compassionate girl in Caitlin’s school class, also assists her, especially when a teacher and some students bully Caitlin. Brook helps Caitlin to decode people’s faces and behavior, to make friends, and to handle an unpredictable world. Caitlin’s father is paralyzed by grief after he loses his son, and he has trouble parenting Caitlin.įortunately, Caitlin has a wise and kind school counsellor, Mrs.
The two siblings were very close, and Devin had helped his sister to deal with the complex and confusing world around her. Caitlin’s mother died of cancer, and her older brother Devon died after a shooting at his high school. Caitlin is a talented young artist, but her life is difficult.
Erksine’s first-person narrator is a ten-year-old girl with Asperger’s syndrome named Caitlin Ann Smith. Motivated by her concern after the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007, Kathryn Erskine wrote mockingbird (mok′ ing-bûrd) to examine how families cope after a sudden tragedy.
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