what is the statue in the "midnight in the garden of good and evil"?

Question

what does is the significance of the statue in the book/movie.

also people who have read this, or seen the movie, could you give me a summary.
thaks =]

Answer 1

The statue is called " Bird Girl" It originally was in Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. But after the movie came out, they had to move it, because too many people were tramping over the graves just to see it. It's in a museum now.

http://www.telfair.org/store/store_prod_bg.asp

As for summarizing the book or movie, I won't do that, as I suspect you may be supposed to be reading it for yourself..

Answer 2

It's really a great read, so, yeah, you ought to read it. I've linked a light summary of it.

The statue itself doesn't really figure into the plot, but makes a great symbol for the story.

Bird Girl is (or was) in a cemetery -- a "garden of good and evil" that have been leveled to the same state (death has claimed them all); the title is also a reference to voodoo, midnight being the time for good or bad magics, often worked in a cemetery. Look at her -- consider how she is posed: much like a figure of the goddess Justice, only instead of holding a scale, she is the scale, weighing the good and the evil. As the book is largely concerned with court trials, it's an apt visual metaphor.