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What Does The Snails Symbolize In To Kill A Mockingbird
In this simile, catawba worms usually wriggle around and won’t stop moving in dirt or in this story, a bucket. Harper Lee described how the students were moving around. The students in the story were wriggling around when they got excited like how worms would move around.
The ceiling in the story, had many lights moving around so much like it was dancing.. In this personification, Harper Lee described how the ceiling was full of lights. When the students took out their molasses buckets, the buckets reflected the lights onto the ceiling.
When Ms.Caroline gave Walter quarters for lunch, he may have never seen so much money in his life. In this hyperbole, Harper Lee wants the reader to know how poor Walter is. Walter was too poor to afford lunch
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Snails aren’t the fastest thing known on Earth when they move. In this hyperbole, Harper Lee describing how slow Tim Johnson is progressing. Scout compared Tim Johnson and a snail because of the snails are moving so slow like how Tim is progressing his information slowly.
Cotton doesn’t have a specific flavor. It tastes like you are eating something soft, like cotton candy, but with no flavor. In this simile, Harper Lee wants us to know how Scout felt when you eat Calpurnia’s biscuits. According to Scout, the biscuit must tasted bad because it had a cotton taste which had no flavor to her.
When you are sick and droopy, you are unhappy and very worn out. In this personification, Harper Lee is helping the reader picture how the house would look like. The house was pretty worn out and dark because when you are sick, you get worn out and unhappy like how the house is since no one ever comes out of the house.
In the story, frog-sticking is when you are hunting for frogs with a pitchfork, but when you are doing it in the dark, it is a lot harder. In this metaphor, Harper Lee is telling us how Atticus is in trouble. It is hard for Atticus because he is trying to help a black person because back then it is hard to convince that a black person is innocent to the

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