To Kill A Mockingbird Snowman Symbolism

The snowman in the novel represents that a black person is not accepted unless he is white, and the trial of Tom Robinson. In Maycomb County, Jem and Scout experienced snow. Maycomb county has not witnessed snow since 1885, so Jem and Scout thought the world was ending when they first saw it out of their window. They decided they were going to create a snowman. There was little to no snow so Jem told Scout to walk back in her tracks, so they did not waste any snow that they could use for their snowman. They ended up using snow from Miss Maudie's house as well as theirs. Jem realized that there was not an abundant amount of snow, so they would have to use mud to build the snowman and then cover it with snow. They figured out how much of each they needed, Scout mentioned, “… we had five baskets of earth and two baskets of snow, Jem said we were ready to begin.” (Lee 88).

Scout got Jem some snow and put in front of Jem and ,according to the novel, “Jem scooped up some snow and began plastering it on.” ( Lee 89). The snowman is a symbol in the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, because it represents that a black person is never accepted unless he is a white “snowman”. This is a symbol because at first Jem and Scout made a snowman out of mud ,but because they knew a snowman was supposed to be white they scooped up snow and plastered it on the mudman. They didn’t think it would be acceptable to leave the snowman brown, so they covered the snowman to make it acceptable in