Flowers In To Kill A Mockingbird

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the camellia flowers to symbolize Mrs. Dubose’s strength and willpower, which is masked by her toxic attitude. At the beginning of Chapter 11, Lee writes about Scout and Jem’s experiences walking past Mrs. Dubose’s home. Scout recalls that when walking past she would say "Hey, Mrs. Dubose,” and receive an answer of, “Don’t you say hey to me, you ugly girl!” (Lee PG 115). Scout recalls saying hello to Mrs. Dubose as she walked past her home and Mrs Dubose harshly teased Scout by calling her an “ugly girl”.

Mayella barely had anytime to herself since she was the parent of the house. The only thing Mayella took care of the most was her flowers. In the story that symbolized how even in the dirty place something beautiful can grow only in keep maintained and well treated. That foreshadows on how Mayella is mistreated and she doesn't grow from that because all her life she has heard lied and harassments. “He does tollable, ‘cept when--”(183).With her father coming home drunk she was faced with the beatings that from her father.

She is used to living in a grimy house on an unsanitary property. Mayella selflessly operates at stage 6 when she grows the red geraniums on the Ewell property. Characters that behave at stage 6 operate with a sense of justice because they believe it’s the right thing to do, they may even break the law if they wholeheartedly believe it benefits everyone. In chapter 17, a character describes the Ewell property to be dirty and unsanitary but says, “against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums [...] people said the were Mayella Ewell’s (228). Mayella acts beyond her usual stinginess when doing this. She is trying to provide her and her six siblings with beauty so they can experience something out of the ordinary and lovely. Although the action of growing the geraniums isn’t breaking the law, it is going against the everyday filthy life the Ewells live. For once, Mayella isn’t thinking of herself, but of

Mayella is able to lie her way to making Tom look guilty and win the case because of her power against a black man. However, no matter how powerless Mayella was according to her class and gender, her race in a racial society gave her the ability to win the case against Tom. Because of her low class status, Mayella Ewell’s family lives in their “home”, otherwise known as their shack, which is fenced by tree-limbs and broomsticks (Doc A). In an attempt to make their home look beautiful, Mayella decorated their yard with red geraniums. Mayella’s low class status is also shown when she misunderstands “ma’am” as a term of disrespecting her (Doc C) and being ignored by black people and by white people of a higher social class (Doc E).

In chapter ten of To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem gets angry at what Mrs. Dubose said about him and his family, so takes scouts brand new baton and chops off the top of her camellia buds and then he snaps her baton in half. As Jem and Scout make their way to town Mrs. Dubose who raked them by her wrathful graze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing She criticized how Scout dressed, how Atticus was defend tom, a black man, and how Atticus let them run wild. When Atticus found out that Jem had chopped the top of her bushes off, he made him go apologize to her. Mrs. Dubose then made a request for Jem which was for him to read

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a timeless novel that has been both accepted and refused by many readers. To Kill a Mockingbird took place is a town called Maycomb. It is narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, otherwise known as Scout, who learns how to deal with many things in her life. While learning to deal with racism, injustice, and criticism, she also finds courage being showed by many of her role models. The theme courage is best depicted through Boo Radley, Scout and Atticus.

Flowers are an ongoing symbol in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. They are used to relate to or represent many of the characters all through the novel. The use of symbolism throughout this work of fiction is essential because it gives a deeper understanding of the characters. Mayella Ewell and the red geranium, Miss Maudie and her azaleas, Miss Dubose and her camellias, and Mayella Ewell and the violet are four major uses of symbolism in the story.

In her essay, “The Burden of a Happy Childhood,” Cantwell uses disguised archetypes to show that many use their childhood as a crutch for the real world when really it is something to leave behind you. Many archetypes used in literature are quite obvious, such as death, windows, the color white, but there are many important types that sometimes people overlook. During the Victorian era, flowers were used to symbolize many different things, they were even used to send codes between people, from things as simple as love and friendship to things more elaborate like needing to plan a meeting in a certain place or time. Cantwell makes a habit of mentioning different flowers throughout her essay, even naming them specifically. Even her use of animals

Jem's damaging of Ms. Dubose's camellias in "To Kill a Mockingbird” symbolizes a challenge to the old Southern values of Maycomb. Atticus describes Ms. Dubose's camellias as "a pretty white" (Lee, 104), highlighting their significance in representing

Jem is shaped by his childish attitude, causing him to hardly respect his elders apart from Atticus and Calpurnia up until the incident with the elderly Mrs. Dubose. Daily, the Finch family passes the elderly Mrs. Dubose’s house and constantly are battered with harsh racial slurs in response to which Jem acts hastily “and did not begin to calm down until [every top of the camellia] bush owned was cut” (Lee 137). This simple act of rage blinds Jem’s ability to show empathy and destroys the single most important item Mrs. Dubose currently lives for her flowers. Living for what a person believes in and holding on dearly is the start of the grasp that Jem and the reader fall into. From there the reader slowly begins to realize that Mrs. Dubose is a misunderstood lady the requires attention, and in which there is a continuous “drive to know what happens next” that grasps the reader in the scene (Gaiman 1).

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, some characters are symbolized by flowers. Harper Lee connects specific flowers to characters because of the meaning of the flowers. She compares Mrs. Dubose to a Camellia, Mrs. Maudie to Azalea, and Calpurnia the Calpurnia flower.

Mayella is forced to stay in her house and do chores and take care of her siblings since her father was too drunk to ever take care of them and their mother is dead. ¨Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty five years¨ (256 Lee). The only person she ever comes in contact with is Tom Robinson because ¨white people wouldn't have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs: Negroes wouldn't have anything to do with her because she was white¨(256 Lee). The Ewells were the lowest class of whites, they lived in a black community and had no money or education. The only people they had power over where the colored people, such as Tom Robinson.

The novel To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is about a young girl named Scout and her brother, Jem, growing up in the small, southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. Scout and Jem live with their older father, Atticus, and spend their summers playing with their friend, Dill. They have many neighbors, and one is an older woman named Mrs. Dubose. As the siblings grow older, they begin to drift apart and new disagreements begin. Yet, as Jem begins change, he starts to think more maturely about feuds with his sister and opinions towards his neighbors. For example, in the tire incident, Jem realizes that Scout is in trouble and tries to help her. In addition, in the flower incident with Mrs. Dubose,

The book "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a story of life in an Alabama town in the 30's. The narrator, Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, is writing of a time when she was young, and the book is in part the record of a childhood, believed to be Harper Lee’s, the author of the book..

To Kill a Mockingbird is a book written by Nelle Harper Lee. It’s set in a fictional town in Alabama called Maycomb during the Great Depression. This story follows The Finch family (Scout, Jem and Atticus) during a case that Atticus takes on. Mayella Ewell and her father accuse a man of rape. Since this man, Tom Robinson, is african-american all the occupants of maycomb assume he is guilty. Eventually,