(84). His tears symbolize a certain loss of innocence when he realizes that Mr. Radley plugged up that hole to keep them from communicating with Boo. Tears are mainly water, and water is pure. Pure is also a word used to describe a child’s innocence. Scout describes that she, “saw...
“There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with… Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself” (Lee 6). Lee's allusion to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address is significant ...