In the description of the courthouse (page 179) we (our class) found many different symbolisms.

To start off with one I’m going to be talking about the dust that floats around the court room floor. When I heard about the dust on the courtroom floor the first thing that I thought was the ashes of the other courthouse that burnt down. The reason behind this is because in another sentence it says “in spite of them” and when you say in spite of them what it means is for example when your trying to clean but there’s a party going on next door, your doing the cleaning in spite of the party so your doing the cleaning while ignoring the party, so when they built the new court house over the old courthouse they completely ignored it and they carried on building it.