TKAM 12/17/15

Prompt - Draw 4 objects that represent your reading. Write a sentence for each, telling what each item says about what you've been reading.

(Spoilers)
*not in order
1. Mockingbird

     A mockingbird would be the most symbolic thing in this book; it symbolizes innocence. It is said in the book by Atticus; "Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." They are associated with innocence because they don't hurt anyone/anything, and they just chirp or 'sing'. Two characters that it represents as well, are: Boo (Arthur) Radley and Tom Robinson.
      It represents Boo because toward the end of the book, because when he kills Bob Ewell, he simply wanted to save Scout and Jem form being attacked/killed by Bob. If the story got out in who killed Bob, everyone would come and give him a bunch of attention; which he didn't want. He never did anything wrong and all he wanted was to be left alone.
     Tom would also be considered as a mockingbird because he was falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell; Bob's daughter. He got sent to jail simply because of his skin color, even though his story had no signs of being fake, I'm comparison to Bob and Mayella Ewells'. When he tried to escape jail, he got excessively shot and killed. This shows how he was just an innocent person who lost his life because of racism.

2. Camellia

     A camellia in this book would represent humanity and understanding. Mrs. Dubose was one of the Finch's neighbors that was elderly and racist. Everyday that the kids would pass, she would yell insults about them, but one day when she said something about Atticus, Jem decided to take his anger out on her prized camellias. As punishment, he had to go read to her everyday (except Sunday's) and every day they left a little later when an alarm clock went off and her daughter brought her medicine.
     Although, until after she died, Jem learned that she was a morphine addict; and every time that he read to her, she was able to delay her morphine fix for a little but every day. In the beginning, Jem was handling Mrs. Dubose's  racism in an angry way, but when he calmly read, it showed a sensible approach to her racism. When she died, Jem received a single camellia that was in perfect condition, this was Mrs. Dubose's way of showing Jem that everything was alright and she ended up getting her humanity back before she died.

3. Overalls

     The overalls symbolized an acceptance and kind gesture. Throughout the book, especially towards the beginning when Scout was young; overalls were mentioned a lot. Scout loved to wear them, but everyone seemed to not like her wearing them. Atticus let her wear them, but has was told many times that she shouldn't wear them.
     Aunt Alexandra said that they were unladylike and she shouldn't be allowed to wear them; and Mrs. Dubose tells Scout that wearing clothes like that will make her end up "waiting tables at the O.K Cafe" (which served African Americans). Then, the symbolism comes in when Scout and Jem get attacked by Bob, and Aunt Alexandra tells Scout to get out of her ham costume and to put on her overalls. She told her this, even though she hated the overalls.

4. Snowman

     The snowman that Scout and Jem built symbolizes tea
mwork. It does, because when they want to build it, there is not enough snow, so they make a mud snowman and cover it with snow.  When it's just the mud, and the snow comes over it, the kids think it looks like it had a mixed "skin color"; and Scout had never seen anyone that was biracial, but Jem knew about Mr. Dolphus Raymond's kids. Anyway though; the symbolic part was that since the dark soil and the light snow could work together, just his black and white people have to work together in society to have a successful synchronization or coexistence.

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