To Kill a Mocking BirdEssay Preview: To Kill a Mocking BirdReport this essayTo kill a mocking birdHarper Lees, To Kill A Mockingbird, shows a girl named Jean Louise Finch or Scout Finch who is constantly battle discrimination within her town. Her father, Atticus Finch receives the Tom Robinson case, hopelessly trying to defend Tom of raping a white woman. Lee utilises symbols to represent discrimination in the town of Maycomb, Alabama, Scouts home. To Kill A Mockingbird utilises symbols like the snowman, the knot hole and the mockingbird which describes the discrimination in Maycomb county
First of all, the snowman represents how black people should not be discriminated. When Jem and Scout went to collect some snow from Miss Maudie, the snow was white but they also collected some dark coloured snow. They were able to collect 2 baskets of snow and within the snow were 5 baskets of dirt. “Looks messy now, but it wont later, he said. Jemscooped up an armful of dirt, patted it into a mound on which he had constructed a torso. Jem I aint ever heard of a nigger snowman, I said.” (Lee 89). In this passage it shows how the dirt which represents the black people and the white which represents the white people should be unified and should not be seen as different. When Atticus returned home and saw the snowman on the front lawn. “Youve perpetrated a near libel here in the front yard. Weve got to disguise this fellow.”(90). Atticus doesnt want people to misinterpret the snow man as a black person so he tells Jem to put an apron on it as a disguise. Atticus knows that in his life time the black and the white will never be able to come together as one.
Beside from the snowman, another symbol that Lee used was the knot hole. There were always items in the knot hole such as chewing gum, a spelling bee medal, an old pocket watch and 2 soap figurines that resemble both scout and Jem. We know that this was the oly way Arthur was able to communicate with the outside world. One day, Scout and Jem tried to communicate with their beneficial, but the Knot hole was covered by Nathan. ” Here, lets write a letter Mr. Radley, ah–did you put cement in that hole in that tree down yonder?Yes, he said. I filled it up. Whyd you do it, sir? Trees dying. You plug em with cement when theyre sick. You ought to know that Jem.” (83). By doing so Nathan shut Arthur from any communication to the outside world.
[Footnote: “An early sign in the book, written and carried with his sword, indicates that Jem was never sent to the front line, as he did not ask for help from the Americans as much as a scout. Many years after the Battle of New Orleans, a number of scouts were sent from the front lines to the front lines, for that very reason, but their names were not known until afterward. They did not have an opportunity of looking or hearing about the American flag until 1812.]
THE HOURING OF ANOTHER CULTURE [ edit ]
A group of pioneers from a small country in Europe were hired by the American army in 1857 to carry on a race through the woods to discover this mysterious but very powerful plant, probably a plant that lives in the middle of a river. Unfortunately, no one was ever able to do this. An inexperienced young man had stumbled upon the plant in a seedy area and was immediately alarmed when a tree at his foot was seen crawling along, so he put up his hand and threw the plant. The plant took over the entire tree’s branches, and when they went to inspect their little holes, the one next to the other was not able to open them without being struck in the head with nails by this powerful seed.
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In 1849, the American army marched out, and before long, the American scouts were informed of the plant. They reported to Captain Samuel N. Smith Jr., commanding a small group in front of the camp they came from. He was a little disappointed, and gave a great account of his experience for the first time. It was he which told them what had happened. “I thought that if I would simply bring this out of this place to the scout and see him go from one to the other, I should be successful,” he wrote. “But it is true that we have never brought any of the other things together so far. We were all anxious to see where the American was going. We believed that by coming to him we would meet him in person, so we found ourselves looking upon every possible circumstance until we got to that point.” This was the first time that so many of the American scouts had seen a tree at a distance. In fact, they only had to go through the woods when the tree began to grow a lot more densely. In short, this was the first time that the American scout had been told all about this plant, and a young scout was so enthusiastic about it that he sent a scout into the woods. Many other young scouts have followed in his footsteps, and after the encounter, followed in the footsteps of almost every American present in the camp.[14]
The American scout described the plant “as a wild mushroom-like plant similar to pea moss but
She uses the snow man to describe how both black and white people should work together. Another symbol is the knot hole, which shows that Arthur Radley is unable to communicate with the outside world. And the Mockingbird in order to represent the death of innocence in the County of Maycomb