Racism takes many forms,like the purity and goodness of innocent people is destroyed by people that have a different perspective of them. The innocence of people is destroyed by evil. In this novel the innocent people are social outcasts due to the color of their skin and the racist stereotypes around them, while evil slowly destroys a person because they are not the same race. In To kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses metaphors to disguise symbols throughout the novel. Some of those symbols are Miss Maudie's nutgrass, Tim Johnson “the mad dog”, and the Mockingbird, each of these symbols have a different meaning of how different people in Maycomb view racism.
Miss Maudie’s nutrass symbolizes the black population of Maycomb. Miss Maudie is very
Miss Maudie’s nutrass symbolizes the black population of Maycomb. Miss Maudie is very