To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee. This novel takes place in the 1930s during the Great Depression in a little town in Alabama called Maycomb. The book follows a 6-year-old named Scout, who’s the father of a white lawyer who is risking his life to defend a black man in court. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the Snow, the Snowman, and the Mockingbird to represent events foreshadowed throughout the story. To begin, Harper Lee uses Snow to foreshadow the melting confidence in Jem and Atticus winning the case. The Snow symbolizes a change in the book. When this pops up in the book, Scout and Jem, Scout’s older brother, keep finding stuff in a hole in a tree on the Radley property. They would end up writing a …show more content…
Jem and Scout would go see if Boo Radley responded to the note and they would find that the hole in the tree was filled with cement. Scout says, “‘The worlds’ endin’, Atticus! Please do something!’ I dragged him to the window and pointed. ‘No, it’s not,’ he said. ‘It’s snowing.’” (Lee 64). The Snow is being used to show a change in the book. The snow symbolizes optimism. As the story goes on, we find out that Atticus Finch, Jem and Scout’s dad, has to defend a black man named Tom Robinson in court, who has been accused of raping Bob Ewell’s daughter, Mayella Ewell. This became a big deal in town and Jem and Scout were being bullied by their dad defending Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson had to testify against Bob Ewell and Mayella Ewell in the case. Scout narrates, “He was pounding the balcony rail softly, and once he whispered, ‘We’ve got him.’ (Lee 178). This shows that Jem is confident that Atticus is going to with the case because Bob Ewell had to show that he could write and he wrote with his left hand and Mayella Ewell was beaten up on the right side of her body, which means someone who leads