To Kill A Mockingbird Figurative Language Analysis

By reading between the lines, authors like Sherman Alexie and Harper Lee use their writing crafts to make readers look more into the book in a deeper angle. Looking at To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, throughout her text, she adds figurative language and foreshadowing to show the readers upcoming events that might occur. Which affects the reader's thoughts while reading the text because writing crafts like figurative language spark ideas and reveal characterization. In the start of the book, the main character Atticus teaches his daughter Scout about open-mindedness. Lee writes, "'First of all,' he said, 'If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point
This relates to the theme because in both books, the colored people were the ones isolated, till they introduced themselves to new things. Like how Junior got out of his comfort zone and introduced himself to the white people in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian By Sherman Alexie. Atticus teaches Scout how she shouldn't be a follower like the rest of the white folks in Maycomb, she should explore new things rather than sticking to the same routine like the rest of the people. As Atticus says, you never understand what a person is going through till you look at it in their point of view; you never know the feeling till you experience something yourself. This relates to the theme of segregation/discrimination directed at a person who is out of social standards because, during the time, where the book was set, there were many racial issues in the US. The blacks were considered as the lowest class, the