To Kill a Mockingbird: Analysis of symbolism. To Kill a Mockingbird is not just a simple story of growing up. This book contains metaphors and symbolism that greatly increase its literary value. Mockingbird The most important symbol in this story is probably the mockingbird. The theme of the mockingbird is shown in the title and throughout the rest of the book. After Scout and Jem received air rifles for Christmas‚ their father Atticus said to them "Shoot all the bluejays you want‚ if you can
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Janice Heron is the teacher who has the honor of teaching a “golden mean” this year. Janice Heron refers to her class as the “golden mean” due to the fact that her students in this years class consisted of low‚ middle‚ and high socioeconomic statuses. This classroom was also made up of an equal percentage of hispanic‚ white‚ and black students (Silverman‚ Welty‚ & Lyon‚ 1996‚ p.125). Throughout her eighteen years of experience with teaching‚ Janice Heron has had the opportunity of working with students
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admirable protagonist‚ while ugliness indicates the abominable antagonist. As children we are taught‚ without even realizing it‚ to prize beauty. People of every race and culture have gone to extremes in the name of beauty – from foot-binding in China‚ to dangerously constricting corsets in Victorian v Society has always valued beauty. In literature‚ attractiveness often symbolizes an admirable protagonist‚ while ugliness indicates the abominable antagonist. As children we are taught‚ without
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Novel Notebook: To Kill a Mockingbird 1. Setting/Matter: The setting for this book is Maycomb‚ a small stagnant town in Alabama in the 1930s. It is a small town so everyone knew everyone in the town. This setting helped contribute to the results of Tom Robinson’s trial. Since everyone else knew each other‚ the townspeople would know if a member of the jury voted for Tom’s innocence. This greatly contributed to the result of the trial. This book takes place in the 1930s in the south‚ which contributes
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with him‚ but she said that she couldn’t leave the Crakers. Jimmy might not have realized it but‚ he began his transition into Snowman the moment he was forced to shoot Crake after he had slit Oryxs’ throat. Jimmy’s utopia turned into a dystopia in that exact moment. Which followed him through pure isolation‚ other than contact with the Crakers. The ghost of Oryx haunts Snowman‚ along with the presence of genetically modified specimens like pigoons and the
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and understand differently in the book. The word ‘nigger’ is freely used in Maycomb as they don’t understand the concept of it. In Chapter eight‚ on page seventy-two‚ Jem and Scout are building a snowman and as Jem puts dirt on the snowman‚ Scout states: ‘Jem‚ I ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman‚’ in which he replies: ‘ He won’t be black for long‚’. This could suggest that Jem and Scout are naïve about the use of the word ‘nigger’. Similarly no one in the society of Maycomb and alike realized
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situation at hand‚ but also climbs to the level of placing hidden allusions which refer to great biblical stories in which sharpens the readers understanding and develops the stories plot and theme. One example in particular Wilbur wrote that the snowman “Returns a God-forsaken stare‚ such
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about coming of age through a court case that their father‚ Atticus took to defend Tom Robinson‚ a black man wrongly accused of raping a young white woman‚ Mayella Ewell . Throughout the novel‚ Harper Lee uses symbols such as the mockingbird to the snowman to Boo Radley so the theme : "you can never stop the loss of innocence". One of the symbols Harper Lee uses to show‚ the theme "you can never stop the
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adult we become. Through the character of Jimmy and later his new persona Snowman‚ the reader is shown the detrimental effects of an abandoned childhood. Not only do Jimmy’s poor choices in his adult life have a clear link to his neglected and unguided childhood they also create an adult that is emotionally damaged and unable to see the right path in his life even when he wants to. Atwood’s similarities between Jimmy and Snowman and their relationship in his childhood through to adulthood clearly
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Ticking Clock During Christmas On a normal day for Vertex‚ a very unusual incident happened. This never happened before in the past ten years. The clock was ticking so fast and as a result‚ Christmas day is getting closer faster than how it should really be. “What’s happening?” Vertex yelled not knowing that he is not the only one who noticed the clock. Instead‚ the entire town did. Everyone in the town was so scared that they didn’t know what to do. Vertex then finally decided to go find a definite
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