Black. White. Rich. Poor. Everyone is judged based on where they live and where they come from. No one has to truly spend the time to get to know someone, when they feel like know them do from their own prejudice. Scout and Jem, from Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird, live during the Great Depression in a small town in southern Alabama called Maycomb. In Maycomb, people judge others as if it were their job, from the skin color to the amount of money they have. Throughout the story Jem and Scout seem to see people as for who they are, and not by their appearance. One character, Boo Radley, sees them as the only ones in the whole town who have a clean view of the world. He makes them soap figures to show them how he feels about them. These soap figures of Jem and Scout are the most significant symbol considering it intertwines perfectly with the novel's characters and themes. …show more content…
Each soap figure was made to symbolize Jem and Scout.Boo Radley made them this way to show the kids how he sees them. Boo thinks that children are the only ones that are not blinded by the prejudices of Maycomb. He makes their figures out of soap to show how the children are clean of the discrimination. Jem and Scout being clear of the dirt of prejudice allows them to be the only ones in the town that can help wash away the unfair judgment of others. “‘Entailments are bad,’ I was advising him. When I slowly awoke to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation”(Lee 204) Scout talks these people out of hurting Tom Robinson by starting a civil conversation. This helps them realize that because she does not judge people, like the cunninghams, that they should not jump to conclusions about Tom