What Does The Flower Symbolize In To Kill A Mockingbird

It’s hard to remove an ingrained piece of a person or community whose roots have gone so deep. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee describes a young girl’s and brother’s experience of growing up in a small, rural 1930’s Alabama town, and how they start to comprehend the negative values around them. Finally, the children see that not all is well in the world and that sometimes people just ignore an ugly truth because it’s too seemingly rigorous for one to fix. Pulling something up by the roots could mean many things, but in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, she uses symbolism in Mrs. Dubose’s scenes to convey the idea that courage enables one to battle their biggest flaws. The anatomy of the snow-on-the-mountain flower provides the symbolism to illustrate that when problems run so …show more content…
On top there are beautiful and small white flowers, the problems of Maycomb and its people, and also representative of Mrs. Dubose’s addiction to pain medication. These are precisely what Jem cuts off with Scout’s baton, as he channels his anger at the world and removes those flowers from his sight. Jem enacts an important scene by just swiping off the top flowers on the surface,and the problem of Jem’s anger seems to be resolved, when it went much deeper than that (137). Harper Lee provides Mrs. Dubose to try to teach to Jem that to remove these problems, you have to be brave and confront the problem at its source. This origin would be the weakness to craving pain medicine, forming the bitterness towards everyone in the community, and the unfairness of how Jem’s father is treated, which leads to his outbursts of frustration. Neither of these problems does Mrs. Dubose and Jem respectively want to face, but must be if they are to get through the matter. These sources of problems are not commonly destroyed, because they require effort and they aren’t the issues most people want to