To Kill a Mockingbird project help?

Question

We read to kill a mockingbird over the Summer and everyone got assigned a character. We have to fill up a paper lunch sack with objects that represent the character himself or the theme that he represents. I got Dolphous Raymond (the guy who pretends to be a drunk bc he has mixed children and wants to give society an explanation), obviously i have a coca-cola bottle. any other ideas from people who read the book? or are familiar with the character?

Answer 1

he pretend to be drunk but he isnt really drunk he just have a coco cola bottle in his hand

Answer 2

He is a rich white man who owns land on a river bank, lives near the county line, is involved with a black woman, and has mulatto children.

That's about all that is said about him so I thought about the setting of the book, 1935 Alabama. So, a rich white man may have a cane, umbrella, eye glasses,  gloves, handkerchief, dress socks.  

If you can't find the articles, you may want to go to magazines or look online for pictures of the clothing in that era and put them in your bag.  

This is more information on Alabama in that time frame and what people ate:



cotton, they grew most of their own food - vegetables (corn, potatoes, black-eyed peas, sweet peas, melons, tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, onions, turnips and their greens, beets, etc.), hogs, chickens (for meat and for eggs), a few cattle (for meat and for milk and butter), grapes, apples, peaches, etc. They bought things like flour and corn meal in town to make bread, and bought cheese from larger farms that had larger dairy herds. I have my grandmother's cookbook from the period, and it's clear which recipes she used for biscuits, pies, cakes, etc., because those are the pages that have the most smudges on them! "Town folks" would buy their food from farmers at vegetables stands, or from small grocers in town.

Because he had money, food was not a problem.

Answer 3

think of the qualities of the character:

-compassionate? why?

-understanding? why?

-rebellious? why?

-outside the norm of the white community? why?

do any items or photos or things you can put in the sack, symbolize any of those qualities? be prepared to explain 1- the item, what it is, 2 - the quality you associate with the item and why, and 3- why is the item symbolic to people?