To kill a mocking bird

In my to Kill A Mocking Bird book cover I have added the following themes and elements to my book cover: a tree with a knothole, roots of the tree, six geraniums, a snowman, fire, a mocking bird. On the book’s back cover i have added: the element of black and white, scales and a man with his fist up on top of the scales.
A tree with a knothole and its roots
The tree with the knothole is Boo Radley’s attempt to form a friendship with the children, he places gifts in the knothole for the children to find. Boo Radley had been robbed of his childhood, so he watches over the children, watching them have the childhood and freedom he had never had. It is Boo Radley’s way to contact everyday society. When Mr. Nathan fills the whole up with cement, he cuts off Boo from Jem and Scout and any other normality he had in his life. The roots of the tree represents when the tree roots are spreading out and disrupting the road, it symbolises Boo Radley trying to reach out to the children. But, getting interrupted by Mr. Nathan when he fills the hole up with cement.

Six geraniums
“Against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson, had Miss Maudie deigned to permit a geranium on her premises. People said they were Mayella Ewell's". This suggests that Mayella desires to be better than her surroundings, to make something bright in her dull world, to aspire to be something great . Everything in Mayella’s life is “ugly” her father sexually abuses her, she lives in a dump, her father spends his relief checks on alcohol instead of taking care of his children, her and her siblings all have different mothers. Everything in her life is ‘ugly’ but...

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...alf the page is coloured black and, the other white the white side has the scales titled up representing the views of the time that ‘whites’ are always right. Due, to the Tom Robison’s unfair trial, a mocking bird was killed.
To conclude this analysis the a tree with a knothole represents Boo Radley’s friendship with the children, the roots of the tree symbolises Boo Radley trying to reach out to the children. Six geraniums represent Mayella Ewell’s desire for beauty. Snowman represents that ‘black’ and ‘white’ people are the same. Fire represents the town uniting before the trial. Mocking bird represents the sin to kill someones innocence. The element of black and white represents the ‘white’ and ‘black’ people of the town. Scales and a man with his fist up on top of the scales represents Atticus trying to rewrite the prejudice the law has against coloured people.