Consider the flood. How does this detail contribute to the conflict, mood, or theme of the passage?

The theme of the passage is that of the tension and their is conflict of interest among the people and the mood is that something life threatening has taken place

Explanation:

It was in the year 1889 during the month of may that the river cone maugh experience heavy rainfall and due to the heavy rainfall the reservoir was full and it could not with hold excess water ,due to this  a flood like situation was caused.However the members of South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club and its President Elias Unger, tried to control the situation by piling mud in order to increase the capacity of the dam ,ditches where develop for the flow of water in a controlled manner but none of the efforts worked in their favor.

Thus a situation of tension was created .After the disaster the survivors asked for legal damages from  South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club because they believed that its was due to the structural changes done by them that caused the river resourceful to swell causing such a big disaster.

The theme of the passage is that of the tension and their is conflict of interest among the people and the mood is that something life threatening has taken place

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).