To Kill a Mockingbird Elements

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To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Elements In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee provides the novel with substantial amounts of literary elements. Of the many, on page 96, we are able to see more of Scout’s character and how her surrounding events bring out more of her inner personality. On page 96, Lee writes “My stomach turned to water and I nearly threw up when Jem held out the blanket and crept toward me.” This metaphor specifically focuses on how Scout felt upon hearing that Boo Radley was the one who put the blanket on her. Despite Boo doing the good deed of trying to keep Scout warm, Scout emphasizes that she was so shocked and frightened from hearing this she felt her stomach becoming as cold as water. This shows Scout’s prejudicial character for feeling immediate fear for the blanket because it was specifically Boo who put it on her. We can further see that Scout really indulged in what she heard about Boo and how much the rumors blinded her. Lee connects the quote she used above with another quote from page 89 where Scout says, “Jem, I ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman.” This quote characterizes Scout’s innocence and portrays the theme of racism. Being the intelligent person she is, but due to her young age, Scout unknowingly uses the offensive word ‘nigger’ because she is too young to understand what nigger really means and how it is racist. This quote portrays the theme of racism when Jem responds to Scout by saying, “He won’t be black long,” describing the snowman to be black on the inside, but white on the outside. The snowman is a representation that deep down, all humans are the same and that no one should be labeled ‘black’ or ‘white’ because of this. Another interpretation of the snowman can be how the white people had control over the black people (the white snow covering the black dirt). Going back to Scout’s innocence, we can
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