To+Kill+A+Mocking+Bird

These are just a few important symbols and metaphors in the novel!

__Snow man__- -everyone's the same inside -white people cover up black people, they need power -the snowman needs the mud to hold it up, whites need the blacks to hold them up -the start was messy, but in the end, it was all worth it -appearances are deceiving (possibly Bob Ewell-he was considered better than Tom Robinson because he was white on the outside, but on the inside he was just dirt) -a little bit of snow was not enough to cover up the mud, but when it all piled together it was worth it -the ugliness of racism could not be cancelled out by one person, they had to join together. -made to look like Mr. Avery (who had said that the snow was the fault of the sins of such children as Jem and Scout.)
 * klu klux clan needs lots of people*

__Mocking bird__- "all the mocking bird does is sing its heart out to us" -//Boo// he helps people when they need him, he is a caged mocking bird. he wants to do good in this world, but he is locked up, he is innocent on trial -//Tom Robinson// is like Boo in that he is innocent when he is on trial, and all he wanted to do was help Mayella because he thought she was lonely. He felt sorry for her. -//Atticus// he does the unpleasant jobs for us -//Jem// is a mocking bird because he helps Scout, he is innocent in the beginning -//Mayella Violet Ewell// She is a mocking bird without a voice (her red geraniums) she wants to do good, but her father holes her up; her spirit was destroyed-possibly a rabid mockingbird, in another environment she would be innocent (she almost reveals the truth) but through the influence (and bloodline?) of her family she inherits the "rabid-ness" -//Scout// she is innocent, she trys to help out as much as she can -//Dill// has many of the same qualities and beliefs as Scout and Jem, but because of bad home life, he runs away and doesn't have the type of family that Scout and Jem have, and maybe take for granted...

__Camellia Flower__ Jem tried to destroy the //white// flowers (white people), but they came back anyway-he didn't destroy the roots of the //prejudice of white people//. When Mrs. Dubose gave him the flower in a box, it transformed into courage. The camellia was also one of the symbols of the KKK. Jem's attack of the flowers showed that he could act against the evil, but that in order to get rid of it completely, it needed to be pulled up by the roots.

__Rabid dog__(and Bob Ewell) Bob Ewell was like the rabid dog because he was sick and drunk, and so was the dog. This instance was a matter of Atticus vs. Racism, in that Atticus killed the dog on the street, and as Mr. Ewell embodies the racism in Maycomb, he "shot him down" in the courtroom. He is only one instance of racism though, and Atticus needs to keep shooting the rabid dogs down.