Examples Of Foreshadowing In To Kill A Mockingbird

Many of the townsfolk viewed him as an evil or mean spirited person. An instance of him being a mockingbird is first seen when Boo begins to put things in the hole of a tree for Jem and Scout to have until it gets filled with cement (44-45). Another example is when Boo puts a blanket around Scout while she is watching the fire at Miss Maudie's house and Scout does not even notice (94-95). The last and biggest act takes place while Scout and Jem are walking home from the play and they are attacked by Bob Ewell. Then to save them Boo stabs Bob

36. Scout was ham in the pageant, and she acted like a ham. 37. Scout wears her costume home, because she was embarrassed. 38.

On the walk back home, Jem heard noises behind him and Scout. They thought that must be Cecil Jacobs. Suddenly, someone rushed to them. Jem started to fight against, and ask Scout to go. Finally, Jem’s arm got seriously hurt, and the person began plaining to attack Scout.

Chapter,28 pp 342-357: Scout and Jem are walking home from a Halloween pageant when suddenly they get attacked by a man. They get away and run home as fast as they could. Jem is hurt but they find out that the man who attacked him was Bob Ewell and was found dead with a knife in him. 19. Chapter, 29 pp 358-362

Bob Ewell had attacked Jem and Scout while they were walking home and Boo saw that his friends were helpless so he went to help them. Jem was already on the ground when Boo came to help and Scout couldn’t help because she couldn’t see anything due to her costume. Boo had stabbed Bob Ewell with a knife and had killed him to help his friends. Boo then had grabbed Jem and carried him to his home so he could be taken care of. Then when Sheriff Tate had investigated how Bob Ewell had gotten stabbed by Boo, but he didn’t arrest him because Boo did that to help Jem and Scout avoid death and instead said Bob Ewell had sat on his knife.

“In the corner of the room was a brass bed, and in the bed was Mrs. Dubose. I wondered if Jems activities had put her there and for a moment I felt sorry for her.” The reason why Jem and Scout were at Mrs. Dubose’s house, was because Jem and Scout were walking by her house when Dubose started yelling at the kids saying that Atticus is not any better than the “niggers and trash he works for.” Jem lost his temper and takes Scouts baton he bought for her and snaps it in half. Jem destroys all of

Lee is no stranger to using foreshadowing, as in her novel To Kill A Mockingbird, she uses the death of a mad dog,

He managed to make a small step in the right direction of getting the Jury to see Tom as innocent. He did this by giving them enough to think about to keep them out of the court for 4 hours even though they still saw him as guilty. This quote proves innocence is killed because charging Tom with this is going to kill his own innocence as well as many others. Both of these quotes tie together because Atticus is stopping and trying to stop Racism from ruining

Jem and Scout have been attacked by Bob Ewell and has caused Jem to break his arm. Atticus asked Scout, “‘Scout, Mr.Ewell fell on his own knife. Can you possibly understand?’” Scout responded, “‘Well, it’d be like sorta shooting a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?’” (Page 370).

Later Scout asks Mrs. Maudie, the Finch's next-door neighbor, about what Atticus said and she explains, “Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us” (Lee 103). This means mockingbirds directly symbolize innocents, when Mrs. Maudie says they don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs she means they don't do anything wrong. So it would be a sin to kill something or someone that is innocent. Later in the book after Tom Robinson is found guilty even though Atticus proves his innocence beyond responsible doubt and it is shown to the courtroom that Bob Ewell is the true perpetrator.

Although all the evidence pointed to Tom Robinson being innocent and the only witnesses were from unreliable and changing sources he was still convicted. This is a depiction of the death of a Mockingbird, ultimately destroying innocence and purity that resided with Tom Robinson that died when he was shot as he tried to flee from his inescapable doom. Mr. Underwood, the publisher of Maycomb 's newspaper as well as a respected all of Atticus, sadly compares Tom 's death to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds...” (pg.244) stating another reference to the ever-present mockingbird

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the term mockingbird symbolizes innocence in a person. In the novel it focuses on the fact that innocence, represented by the mockingbird, can be wrongfully harmed. There are two characters: Tom Robinson and Arthur “Boo” Radley that are supposed to represent the mockingbird. In the novel, Tom Robinson is the best example of a mockingbird because he is prosecuted for a crime he did not commit. Also, he was judged unfairly based on the color of his skin in his trial.

Scout then began to realize that the town of Maycomb isn’t what she had it out to be. Evil things happen, moreover, people have numerous sides to themselves. Ultimately, Scout becomes a mature, young adult with

The author demonstrates the problems in the school systems when Scout enters school she is reprimanded by her teacher, Mrs. Honeycomb for reading proficiently. She is commanded to “tell [her] father not to teach [her] anymore” and stop reading outside of school. Lee’s incongruity of the situation alerts her readers to the flaws within the school system. Lee satirizes the church when Scout and Jem are taken to church by Calpurnia, their black housekeeper, when the children’s father is unavailable. At this Christian church, the children are ridiculed for being white.

In the story, the innocents are destroyed by evil, the “mockingbird” comes to represent the idea of innocence. Thus, to kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence. Such as when Atticus says “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (103). Another example could be when Boo stabs Bob Ewell to save Jem and Scout, which sheriff Tate decides to say that Mr.Ewell fell on the knife, so Boo won’t have to go to court.