In To Kill a Mockingbird, what method does Jem devise to make a snowman?

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This section of the novel occurs in Chapter Eight, and is when, rather disappointingly, Jem has to concede that it is not snowing hard enough to yield enough snow in order to make a snowman from the snow that has landed in his garden. However, never the one to be put off by such facts, Jem determines to take the snow from Miss Maudies garden, asking her permission to take it and transfer it back to his own yard. Even then it is clear that there is not enough snow. Jem therefore collects equal amounts of earth, and uses this soil to construct the first layer of the snowman that they make, before finally using the snow to cover up the earth to give the appearance that they have made a snowman, which bears a rather uncanny resemblance to Mr Avery: Jem scooped up some snow and began plasting it on. He permitted me to cover only the back, saving the public parts for himself. Gradually Mr Avery turned white. In a novel that is so much about racism and the importance of the colour of ones skin, having a snowman that is black underneath and white on top points towards the superficiality of such distinctions, and suggests a common humanity that is shared by all, no matter what the colour of the top layer of skin somebody has. Note too, that the snow that falls is incredibly unseasonable and something of a hostile intervention of nature. This, along with the fire that burns Miss Maudies house, threatens the characters, but the characters are able to use their natural goodness and potential to convert this threat into an opportunity through their goodness. The significance of the snowman is through the way in which Jem uses black earth to build it and how this links to the theme of racism in the novel.

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, what method does Jem devise to make a snowman?

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