Similarities In The Ewells And Cunninghams

In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout attends a school and meets Burris Ewell and Walter Cunningham, two very different people. Walter Cunningham is from a poor farming family, Burris Ewell is also from a poor family. Walter Cunningham wears clean and neat clothes when he attends school and meals. “He did have on a clean shirt and neatly mended overalls”(19).Walter has hookworms. “Walter Cunningham’s face told everybody in the first grade he had hookworms”(19).

From this quote, one can deduce that Burris has little respect for neither his teacher nor school regulations, which is crude and vulgar, along with being plainly impolite. The last reason Burris can be considered vulgar is due to his swearing and name-calling. An example of this can be found after Burris challenges Miss Caroline’s authority and she threatens to report him. As a response, he calls her terrible names, yelling “report and be damned to ye! Ain’t no snot-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever born e’n make me do nothin’!” (Lee 37). This reply clearly displays Burris swearing, name-calling, and being unneedlessly cruel to Miss Caroline, an act of vulgarity in its purest form. Along with Burris being vulgar, the entirety of the Ewell family has shown evidence of being poor. The first piece of evidence is the Ewell’s apparent lack of education. It is shown that Burris himself does not know how to spell his own name, and Ewells only come to school on the first day. This supports the assumption that the Ewells are poor, as a lack of education is one of the foremost signs of

Children around the world are shaped and impacted by their families from the day they are born. However, countless families have drastically different values and morals when raising the children. Families should teach their children to have strong morals and a defined identity to help them grow to be responsible, respectful adults. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the author depicts two families, the Finch’s and the Ewell’s, which have completely different family values. The Finch family has a strong sense of morality and justice, whereas the Ewell family are portrayed as a poor, trashy family that is looked down on by the community of Maycomb.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale displays a similar characteristic to Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin’s, The Awakening. Both Dimmesdale and Pontellier have a outward existence that conforms, while they have an inward life that questions. Dimmesdale is a minister in the town of Boston, Massachusetts. To the people of the town he is the example of divinity and purity. The townspeople believe he was chosen by God, but inwardly Dimmesdale is housing a secret, a sin, that is eating away at him. Hester Prynne a beautiful, young women is part of his sin. Together, Dimmesdale and Prynne committed adultery and have a child, Pearl. Prynne displays the symbol of her sin by wearing a scarlet letter A, but Dimmesdale has not confessed and has planted his sin in his heart.

As the story begins and we start to analyze the characters, Scout comes off as an being unable to grasp the realities of life due to her childlike innocence. We see this through her thoughts and actions. Walter Cunningham has a misfit with Scout in the beginning of the novel that can be an example of both her innocence and intolerance. It starts when Scout's teacher, Miss Caroline, tells Walter to take her money for lunch and suggests paying her back later. Walter refuses and Miss Caroline gets irritated. In attempt to explain why Walter doesn't take the money, Scout tells Miss Caroline the stigma of the Cunninghams. Scout says that Walter can't pay her back because he doesn't have the money; No Cunningham would ever take anything they couldn't pay back. When Scout gets in trouble for talking back, she blames it on Walter and reacted as follows, "Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt..." (Lee 30). This quote

They are, and have been, the rudest and most disrespectful family in Maycomb for three generations. An example of this would be Burris Ewell. When attending class on the first day, he frightens the teacher with his state of uncleanliness. Scout even states that he, “was the filthiest human I had ever seen…His neck was dark gray… his fingernails were black” (Lee 29). When the teacher tries to send him home to clean up, Burris meanly tells her that this is the one and only day that he is ever going to come to school, leaving her distraught and in tears. In addition to talking back, Burris and his family resist going to school. They only go on the first day because the truant lady threatens to report them to the police. The whole family seems to follow their own set of rules instead of society. Their dad, Bob Ewell, hunts in the winter, which is against the law, and gets away with it because his kids would starve otherwise. In addition, the Ewell family doesn’t have a mother to set them right, which is mostly why Burris and all of his siblings only show up for the first day of school, the rest of the year is spent “Living like animals” (Lee 33). I must say that I agree with Atticus when he says, “the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations” (Lee 33). The family has been judged poorly by society for reasons such as disrespectfulness, and discourtesy to

Burris Ewell, however, "was the filthiest human being [Scout] had ever seen". He "laughed rudely" and "slouched leisurely" away from the classroom. This apathetic, lackadaisical and disrespectful attitude is typical of the Ewell family, and contrasts with Walter's strong sense of dignity, showing the vast difference between them.

Both Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are similar in their amount of wealth, but are viewed differently by their community. Tom believes himself to belong to a superior class because he was born into money and in contrast, Gatsby, took part in illegal business dealings to achieve his wealth. Their differences are evident in the location of where they live. East Egg is where people that have been born into money live like Tom, while Jay Gatsby lives in West Egg where people of entrepreneurial success live. “I lived at West Egg, the-well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them…Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.” (Fitzgerald, 5) Tom cheats on Daisy with Myrtle, yet he can’t accept why Daisy would cheat on him with Gatsby since he is of a higher social class than Gatsby, and it would be degrading for Daisy. “‘She’s not leaving me!’ Tom’s words suddenly leaned down over Gatsby. ‘Certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her finger.’” (Fitzgerald, 133) Another difference between

The two special privileges the Ewells have are the kids don’t have to go to school, and the Dad can hunt out of season. They are allowed to do this because they have been tried to be stopped dozens of times, and it never works. So the town just starting turning the other way and stopped caring. “Another thing, Mr. Bob Ewell, Burris’s father, was permitted to hunt and trap out of season.”

To begin, the Cunningham family occupies a critical role in showing kindness throughout the story. While the family may not show compassion to others in the early scenes of the book, the behaviors of others influence them. Near the start of the story, Jem and Scout invite Walter over to the Finch home for dinner, during which Scout begins to taunt Walter for pouring syrup all over his food. When Calpurnia sees this, she pulls Scout aside and gives her a lecture that reads, “Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty!” (29). This moment in the story serves as a reminder to

To begin, one reason they aren't the same is Miss Meeks is nicer to students than Mrs. Biswell. I know this because Miss Meeks greeted the students as they came in the classroom on their first day of school I know this because on page 13 Miss Meeks says, “Good morning, young citizens…” This shows that Miss Meeks is nicer to kids than Mrs. Biswell because Mrs. Biswell doesn’t even greet the kids on the first day of school when they come in.

The Ewells are a vile and hateful family that is an outcast in the town like the Radleys. If the Ewells are two things they are lazy and irresponsible as well as mean. I will start with the Ewells laziness and irresponsibility. First of all, the Ewell family has not earned a dollar themselves and it shows. The Ewell kid at school was filthy with cloth scraps for clothes.

When evaluating the Ewell family they are seen as dirty and disrespectful people. There are many references in the book that support this fact. The Ewell family is characterized as being dirty. The family is visibly dirty. Burris comes to school with a head full of lice.

It was a normal day at Draxler University. There were two boys that went to the university named Jonathan Specs and Berry Ponds. Jonathan and Berry were roommates at the university and even though they were friends they weren't completely alike. Jonathan was very organized when it came to his stuff in the dorm. He wore simple clothes and always gelled up his hair. Everybody liked him because of his funny personality. Berry on the other hand wasn’t organized at all. He picked his hair out every morning, he always wears designer clothing everyday (shoes, shirt, and pants), always some type of designer brand. He had a very laid back personality and didn't care much about anything. One day the two were getting ready for class, how they do every morning. They have classes at the same

Between Ewell’s country roots and horrible examples, and Atticus’ respectful attitude towards life is Walter Cunningham, a man that won’t take anything he cannot pay back (Lee 21). Even though he doesn’t have money, he makes sure that his children survive well enough and that they are respectful and honorable. Cunningham wants his children to grow up to be gentlewomen and ladies, as evidenced by his example of paying Atticus back for his services via food and goods deliveries over the course of a year (Lee 20). He shows his children what it means to be kind, good people, and he expects them to act this way. From what little we see of the Cunninghams in the novel, they do. Walter Cunningham, although he had similar roots as Bob Ewell, is much more like Atticus Finch than the man people expect him to be, namely Bob Ewell.