This essay will compare To Kill A Mockingbird, the poem Sometimes My Body Leaves Me, and Holy Sonnet 10 in terms of themes. There are many similarities between them. This is especially evident when analyzing misery on the earth, love's ability to overcome hardship, and justice and injustice.

First of all, life on earth can be full of misery and hardship. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there is a black man, Tom Robinson, who is innocent but accused of raping a white girl. He has done nothing illegal in his life, but he is treated unjustly. His family is clean-living; no drugs or drinking, and he is so polite that he always says "Yes, suh" (T.K.A.M.190) in every sentence. His life should have been peaceful and joyous, but in truth it is tragic. At last he is shot to death, and...