Foreshadowing In To Kill A Mockingbird

Atticus shoots the dog in one shot, which foreshadows the death of racism. Tom Robinson’s trial is almost complete, but Atticus still has to give a final statement to defend Tom. Atticus hopes to sway the jury in favor of voting not guilty by heavily defending Tom with hard evidence. Atticus states, “It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is.”

One of the most effective literary devices used in To Kill A Mockingbird is foreshadowing. On multiple occasions, major events that contribute to the novel's overall development and message are foreshadowed. One of these events is when Mr. Ewell says, “one down and about two more to go”(323). He says this after he finds out that Tom Robinson was killed in prison, when he says ‘two more to go’ it’s not direct who he is referring to but he is threatening two people who had something to do with Tom Robinson and supported him. The fact that Harper Lee leaves these two people a mystery leaves the reader engaged in the novel and provokes their ideas as to who Bob is threatening and if he’ll follow through with his threats.

Many people go through many harsh, different obstacles in life that morph them into the kind of people they are today. In the novel,  To Kill a Mockingbird, the author, Harper Lee uses literary elements to showcase how a child grows into who they are and the contributing factors that may fall into their path and their learning experiences. Lee uses the scene where Jem destroys the flowers of Mrs. Dubose to portray a coming of age moment. He does this because she is racist and constantly nags at them about their father. His punishment is to read to her everyday for a month.

Amelia Cox Vande Guchte Honors English 10 5/11/23 To Kill a Mockingbird Foreshadowing Harper Lee’s father was a lawyer involved in the Scottsboro Boys trial. She grew up while he dealt with a case of white women falsely accusing Black boys of rape. As an adult, she wrote To Kill A Mockingbird, a story greatly inspired by her childhood. Throughout the book, she uses symbolism to foreshadow what is to come. She uses the mad dog, the mockingbird, even changes in the weather to foreshadow the coming events.

Duboses White Camellia to show white supremacy and the people trusting a white person's word over an African American person just because of one person's skin color. In Maycomb, there is an old woman named Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose. She is a gardener who grows white flowers and is battling an addiction to morphine. Whenever Jem and Scout walk by her house she harasses them and one day Jem snaps and destroys her flowers, because of this, he has to basically babysit her and when she dies she gives him a White Camellia. Lee writes, “Jem opened the box.

If Tom Robinson were not to die the readers would not feel such anger and outrage over how Robinson was wronged. Death is a higher sentence than prison in which it is still extremely wrongful for him to be convicted due to his lack of guilt but his unjustified death has a sense of finality for the readers; with imprisonment there is still hope for the future. Without Robinson’s death, the novel would be less impactful to the readers of the negativity of racism. The readers would feel less moral outrage and feel hope for the wrongs of Robinson’s conviction to be righted and thereby a less severe case. Whereas, his death makes people feel outraged that such an extent of moral injustice was

Against Judgement It is human nature to judge--maybe even criticize--everyone we meet. We all do it. The only matter is how we go about it. Are we going to give-in to stereotypes and peoples’ appearances, or are we going to judge a person only by who they really are? In the enthralling novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses foreshadowing, symbolism, and allegory to convey that some things--some people--are more than meets the eye, a message that is still relevant in today’s society.

Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, and Pulitzer Prize winner uses her book as a way to write about her own life growing up. Sometimes a sleepy town in Maycomb County has more to the story. Jem and Scout Finch learn this through Atticus’s acts of bravery and by losing their innocence through the Tom Robinson trial. Throughout the book Harper Lee uses many themes including courage, loss of innocence, and walking in someone else’s shoes.

In Harper Lee’s historical fiction novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, two children live in a chaotic world of racial injustice and poverty. In this book, two siblings named Jem and Scout Finch grow and mature in a mysterious area of people battling and supporting racism. Throughout this book, Harper Lee uses symbolism to provide the view of racism. While doing this, she also uses selective choices of diction to shape the story. Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird with a purpose, to bring awareness to racial injustice through hidden symbols and diction.

As they go home with Atticus, Scout narrates, "It was Jem's turn to cry. His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd. "It ain't right,... " It ain't right, Atticus," said Jem." (Lee 284).

Even though Scout’s father Atticus makes an incredibly strong case in the defense of Tom Robinson, Tom is still found guilty and sent to prison. Awaiting an appeal in jail, Tom is shot 17 times and killed under suspicious circumstances. Previously in the novel this event was foreshadowed by the appearance of a supposedly rabid or “mad” dog killed by Atticus. Scout narrates, “In front of the Radley gate, Tim Johnson had made up what was left of his mind. He had finally turned himself around, to pursue his original course up our street…With movements so swift they seemed simultaneous, Atticus's hand yanked a ball-tipped lever as he brought the gun to his shoulder.

“Well, it’d sort of be like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee. Based during the Great Depression, this novel follows the point of view of six-year-old Scout Finch, the daughter of a white lawyer, Atticus Finch, who defends a black man, Tom Robinson, for raping a white woman because it was the right thing to do. Scout lives with her brother, Jem, her father, and Calpurnia, who practically raises the kids. Scout and Jem are kept up-to-date on their father’s case, and they face the backlash and grief as Tom is wrongfully charged as guilty.

Dubose as a symbol to foreshadow Jem rejecting white supremacy. In chapter eleven Jem is gifted a box of white camellias after Mrs. Dubose’s death. She gave the flowers to him because Jem helped Mrs. Dubose battle her morphine addiction by reading to her after school in her final days. When Jem receives the flowers Scout describes, “Jem opened the box. Inside, surrounded by wads of damp cotton, was a white, waxy, perfect camellia.

When Atticus find out that Jem, Scout, and Dill followed him into town, he demands that they go home, but Jem refuses: “We were accustomed to prompt, if not always cheerful acquiescence to Atticus‘s instructions, but from the way he stood Jem was not thinking of budging,” (203). Jem is maturing, and he is starting to understand the situation that Atticus is in because of his defense of Tom Robinson. While he would normally obey Atticus, he realizes that protecting his father against the lynch mob is more important. Jem displays his courage even in his stance, emphasizing that he is doing what he thinks is right in spite of the challenges he faces. As Scout interacts with the mob, Atticus continues to demand that the children go home: “‘Atticus stood trying to make Jem mind him.

In the beginning of the novel, he was becoming reckless, and towards the middle and end of the novel, he was more mature. As Jem saw what it was like to be a gentleman from his father, he developed and was teaching Scout about these findings. In the novel it says, “Naw, Scout, it’s something you wouldnt understand. Atticus is real old, but I wouldn 't care if he couldn 't do anything- I wouldn 't care if he couldn 't do a blessed thing” (Lee 107).