Alana Haggar
Vande Guchte
Honors English
May 15th 2023
To Kill a Mockingbird
We all wonder what it was like to live in the past. The culture, the foods, the society, everything. The classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee is a perfect example of a way to look into the past and see what it was like from a first-person point of view. This novel shows what it was really like in the deep south of Maycomb Alabama, and takes place around the early 1930s, one of the most racist periods in history. This novel is from the point of view of our young Jean Louise (Scout) Finch, who lives with her older brother Jem and her father Atticus. Atticus, a strong-willed character with a good moral compass, is a lawyer, defending a black
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This is the story of how they risked their lives for civil justice. We can tell this before even finishing the book. Harper Lee uses foreshadowing in her novel very often to tell us what will happen in the future. She uses many symbols but the ones we will be talking about today will be, the snowman, the mad dog, and finally the white Camilla flower. These are crucial symbols to understand and fully appreciate this book. In her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee masterfully uses the symbolic significance of the snowman, the mad dog, and the white camilla flower to foreshadow events that occur later in the novel.
To begin, Harper Lee uses the snowman to foreshadow how an innocent black man’s story is covered up and forgotten. Excited, Scout and Jem see snow for the first time. They decide to build a snowman with all the snow they can find. Ms.Maudie, a nice lady that lives next
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At the beginning of the book, we see Jem as a cute 10-year-old boy playing with his sister in the warm summer months. We watch him grow older and realize more about the world, as well as how he should stand up for what he thinks is right. When Jem sees something he deems immoral or wrong he seeks to end or destroy it. We see this when Jem and Scout are walking past Mrs.Dubose’s house. Mrs.Dubose, a very mean, sick, and racist old woman, yells at the children every chance she gets. Jem and Scout were on their walk past Mrs.Dubose’s house when she thought she would say something very racist and offend Jem by attacking his father. She thought she would get away with it but Jem decided that was the last straw. We see how Jem reacts when he takes Scout's new baton and Scout narrates “He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every Camilla bush Mrs.Dubose owned,” (Lee 118). This is the first time Jem starts to show how he will stand up against racism. Jem's actions foreshadow how there will be more to come, likely where he will take more substantial risks. Harper Lee tries to start a progressing trend almost where Jem starts to do more dangerous things to stand up for others. She foreshadows how eventually Jem will get hurt because he is just a boy doing what he thinks is right. We see this when
In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee uses Snow, the Snowman, and White Camellias to foreshadow further events in the book. To begin, Harper Lee uses Snow to foreshadow Tom’s
Lee is referred to as Scout throughout the book with her father being depicted as a character by the name of Atticus Finch and her brother being Jem Finch. The interpretation of the trial itself is altered to be based around an African-American man named Tom Robinson, and the false allegations of him assaulting a white woman and his unlawful execution under incarceration. In her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee uses the symbolic significance of a Snowman, the Mad Dog, and a Mockingbird to foreshadow the events of an unjust trial in her novel. Harper Lee incorporates the symbolic significance of a Snowman to illustrate the institutionalized racism in the Southern U.S and foreshadow the treatment of Tom Robinson throughout the book. The Snowman itself appears in the story as first constructed of dirt and then covered with snow.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem, or Jeremy Atticus Finch, is Scout's brother, and throughout the story he changes and matures a lot through a series of stages. First, you have the event that caused this, the trial, then you have the influence that it put upon Jem ,and lastly, how he had overall changed from the experience. After Tom's Trial, when Tom is deemed guilty and goes to jail, Jem is mad because he feels it's unfair. Jem realizes that his outlook on law was rather naive and that there's much more to it, and that his ways of thinking were childish as shown when he is speaking to Atticus, “How could they do it, how could they?’’
Not only does Jem have Scout there to see him mature and grow, Atticus is there to help guide him through the trial and simply become a man. Very different from Lizabeth, his family has all of the resources for them to have a stress free childhood and yet Jem is still faced with things no child should have to sit and worry about. The trial brings many thoughts and questions to Jem’s mind, molding the person he becomes towards the end of the book. While recognizing the injustice Tom Robinson was faced with, Jem becomes more cynical after the trial. No longer believing in the society that he thought he knew.
First of all, a very impactful moment in Jem’s life that changed him is when he was forced to read to Dubose. He did not realize what he was actually doing to help her. When Dubose died Atticus actually began to explain to Jem what he was actually doing he says "She said she was going to leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody. Jem, when you're sick as she was, it's all right to take anything to make it easier, but it wasn't all right for her. She said she meant to break herself of
Furious, Jem lets his anger out on Mrs. Dubose’s camellia flowers. In the book Scout narrates, “He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush Mrs. Dubose owned, until the ground was littered with green buds of leaves” (Lee 137). When Jem destroys these flowers it foreshadows him taking his step towards manhood by showing him choosing agression. Later in the story when Scout says “Jem stayed moody and silent for a week… I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around it” (Lee 77). In this quote Scout is realizing Jem's attitude and moodiness.
Jem idolizes his father and views him as the embodiment of justice and morality at the beginning. However, as Jem became more aware of the world around him, he began to question Atticus' principles. For example,Jem is disappointed when Atticus agrees to defend Tom Robinson, knowing that he will bring ridicule and scorn from the people inside of Maycomb county. However his disappointment turns into admiration when he witnesses Atticus’s to stand up for what is right in the trial.
Jem’s Maturity & Morality Morality and maturity can be seen through the protagonist Jem through the events and lessons learned from the injustices of racism and inequality. Jem shows his growth throughout To Kill a Mockingbird with him maturing and realizing his morality. Throughout the book, Jem can be seen maturing through the influence of other characters in the book which help him see and process what is happening in adult scenarios. Atticus plays a major role in Jem’s growth with Jem wanting to be like him and with Atticus’s guidance Jem learns from him. At the beginning of the story, Jem acted naive and rude towards others but as the story progressed we can see that Jem slowly matures into an intelligent and courageous young man through events such as Ms. Dubose death and the day of the trial.
The actions he takes demonstrate how he becomes a more mature individual throughout this book. Specifically, there are moments in the story where he learns what it means to be an adult, usually after learning a lesson from Atticus. During Tom Robinson’s trial, Jem looks on from the balcony fully expecting the jury to deliver the verdict that Tom is innocent. But, after the trial concludes, the jury determines that Tom is guilty, causing Jem to say, “It ain’t right, Atticus,” (Pg. 242). At this moment we see a change in Jem.
In her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee masterfully uses the symbolic significance of the Mad Dog, White Camellias, and Mockingbird to foreshadow events that occur later in the novel. To begin, Lee uses the Mad Dog
Foreshadowing is used to provide clues to the reader about how events will play out in the future of how characters will develop. In her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee skillfully uses snow, a white camellia, and a mockingbird as symbols to foreshadow events and people that occur later in the book. To begin, Lee uses the snow blanketing
Symbolism is one of the most important aspects of writing, and Harper Lee uses it beautifully to foreshadow events that occur later in the book. Harper Lee is a writer from Alabama, the daughter of a lawyer, and was 34 years old when she published To Kill A Mockingbird. The book is about a little girl named Scout Finch who lives in Alabama during the sv 4great Depression, and her experiences as her dad, a lawyer, decides to take a risk to defend Tom Robinson, a black man that has been accused of raping a white girl. Throughout the book, Harper Lee uses foreshadowing, a tool to hint at events that will happen later in the story without outright saying it; it is used by authors to add depth to their story and to enrich the experience of the reader.
Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout 's perception of courage drastically changes their behavior as they mature. They learn a lot about courage throughout the novel from their father Atticus and what they learn from him influences their choices and opinions. Although Jem is older than Scout, they both experience change in their behavior. At the beginning of the novel, Jem is still a young boy. He is defiant towards Atticus, he plays all the usual childhood games with Scout and Dill, and he engages in the younger children’s obsession with Boo Radley.
To Kill a Mocking Bird is told from the perspective of a little girl named Scout. She lives with her father Atticus, her brother Jem and their maid Calpurnia. In her novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee foreshadows a loss of innocence through the symbolic significance of a snowman, fire and camellia flowers. To begin, the symbolism of the snowman foreshadows the trial and how they converse when constructing it. “Jem, I ain’t never heard of a nigger snowman”, I said.
Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird portrays an accurate reflection of people affairs in the southern United States during the 1930s. The story, which is set around a single-father household in rural community Alabama, includes a vast display of symbolism to connect the main plot with numerous subplots. Through her novel, Lee sets straight the old-fashioned Southern culture for the realism of Southern culture. The timing of this book also matched with the early Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Clearly symbolic is Jem's effort to make a snowman during the unusual Alabama snowfall.