The tree house, like Tim, is an enormous symbol as well. It symbolizes the children’s innocence, and how they lose a part of it as the plot progresses. In To Kill A Mockingbird, the tree house is where the children go to play, and it’s worry free for them. Scout provides an example of the children spending their time in the tree house:“Routine contentment was: improving our tree house that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs” (Lee 8). This is right after Jem and Scout meet Dill and accept Dill to play with them. There, the children spend their time socializing. Chapter five mentions their time
