Chloe Eversole Mrs. Vandeguchie Honors English 10 5/9/24 To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Did you know the book To Kill a Mockingbird uses its symbols to foreshadow later events? Miss Harper Lee wrote the book To Kill a Mockingbird, it takes place in the year 1933 and ends in the year 1935. This book's main character is 6-year-old Scout Finch and the novel takes place as a flashback to when her older brother Jem Finch broke his arm at 12 years old. Leading up to this event, the book follows the children's father Atticus Finch and his fight to free an innocent black man named Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. This amazing piece of literature uses foreshadowing and has lots of symbolism, this means the book …show more content…
The Mad Dog and Tom are held to the same level and both have their respective inevitable fates because of the illness of racism throughout Maycomb County. In To Kill a Mockingbird, The Rabid Mad Dog foreshadows Tom Robinson being shot and killed. Next, the White Camellia Flower is the second symbol Lee uses to foreshadow Jem’s newfound maturity and understanding. The flower makes an entrance to the book in chapter 11 when Jem gets angry at Miss Dubose who is the angry old woman neighbor that always insults Jem and Scout, she makes comments about Atticus defending Tom Robinson in court. Jem takes Scout’s new baton and destroys every one of her White Camellia Flower bushes, for this she makes him come to her house every day for a month and read stories to her. We find out this was to distract her from the pain of quitting her addiction to morphine. Miss Dubose dies soon after the month and gifts Jem a White Camellia Flower in a candy box, which he screams at and throws the box down. At the end of the month, Miss Dubose tells Jem “Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says the top’s growing back out. Next time you’ll know how to do it right, won’t you? You’ll pull