To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

To Kill Innocence Reading the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, has occurred to some people that if they look close enough for deeper meaning in the characters, places, and events that happen in Maycomb County, that they would find it. To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel laden with significance and symbols. Unless it is clear what is happening, the symbolism is not easy to distinguish at first. It is usually foreshadowed earlier in the plot, and the reader is given clues before the message is apparent.They can figure this out by looking for deeper meanings by putting the pieces together from dialect, dialogue, attitude, and tone. The symbolic meaning of innocence and the destruction of it is something that is shown over and over in To Kill A

The snow represents Jem and Scout’s innocence because they use it for play and fun. Later on in the evening, there was a house fire and burns down houses and the snowman that Jem and Scout made. “I watched our Absolute Morphodite (snowman) go black and crumble; Miss Maudie’s sunhat settled on top of the heap.” (94). This quote is a perfect example of how Jem and Scout’s innocence is destroyed and how it will be destroyed later on while going through the experience of the trail. The fire symbolizes the trial; both are traumatic events that change Scout and Jem’s lives and shatter their innocence. As any reader may see, throughout the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many themes, symbols, and foreshadowing. A main theme and topic that affects the story majorly is the loss of innocence that Jem and Scout go throughout in the novel. Whether it is Tom Robinson, a school yard, or a dirty Morphodite snowman, they all play an important and crucial part in the plot. Each one represents the same idea, but they show and interpret differently in characters, places and events. Without the theme of, the loss of innocence, To Kill A Mockingbird would not be the famous and beloved novel that it is