Fourth Assignment

1. Symbolism, metaphor, and allegory= "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb in his skin and walk around in it."
I believe this quote demonstrates all three of these elements because you can imagine the symbol. You can't literally climb into someone's skin. And this carries a moral significance. This quote foreshadows and prepares the reader for what's to come. This can strongly be connected to the black man Tom Robinson who is tried and foundy guilty though evidence statesotherwise.
2. Symbolism= The main character's last name, (Finch.) The book mentions several times how it is a sin to kill an innocent mockingbird. They say a mockingbird only causes joy with it's song, so it would be immoral and a sin to kill one. A Finch, as a mockingbird, is a small bird. The symbol here, Scout Finch representing innocence. She's only an innocent child as a mockingbird is innocent. Her innocence is how she views, (interprets) things. The reader is seing things through an innocent point of view.
3. Mood= The novel starts off mysteriously but alternates frequently. The novel starts like this seing how it's a flashback. Overall I would have to say the mood is mostly humorous. The mood is mostly like this because the story is being told from a child's point of view. Despite the serious trial going on in Maycomb, Scout doesn't understand why people are so worked up about it. Although the mood should be mostly tense, it's pretty relax. This is for the reader to feel how the narrator feels. Children don't always know the gravity of things. I believe this is part of a theme of the book: we should all have a child's innocence.
PJ- The project of my book is to fight off prejudice. The most tense part of the book is about the black man's trial, but the whole book has different forms of prejudice. The purpose of the book is to make us see things differently; from other people's eyes.