PLEASE!!!! IDK WAT TO DO! I am doing a project, but i can't find symbols.
what are some and what do they symbolize???????

How about the roses in the walled garden? Everything looks dead when Mary gets into the garden, but there is still life in the roses. I would think this symbolizes the change in both Mary Lennox and Colin (and even his father). At first, Mary is like that dried-up rose: brittle and brown, no life, no beauty, nothing appealing. As the story progresses, she comes to "life" as she begins to make friends, to see the beauty around her, to think of others and not only of herself. Suddenly, her character gains color and beauty (and looses those prickly thorns).

The robin that befriends Mary and seems to guide her to the garden and the key to the garden and the door of the garden, could be another symbol. Here is Mary's first true friend. He shows the beginning of that life that will well up inside Mary, and the beautiful secrets to be found in friendship.

I actually think you could consider Dickon a symbol, too. He symbolizes all the beauty of nature and how to find it and cherish it as you should. He also shows what a true and steadfast heart is like. He presents the "face" of goodness and kindness and love. In him you see everything Mary will start to become. She is more like he in the end, than the Mary you meet for the first time in India.

I hope this helps.

It's been awhile since I read this book, but it seems pretty clear that the locked/hidden gate door is a symbol for the Uncle's attempt to put everything about his beloved wife "out of sight, out of mind."

The cousin himself could be seen as a symbol for what happens when one parent dies and/or fear about becoming exactly like his parents (in a negative way).

The cousin's general behavior could also be a symbol for how he feels abandoned by his own very distant father.