Ewell

Mayella Ewell is often mentally, physically, and sexually abused by her father Bob Ewell. Even though Mayella takes care of her siblings each day, she is lonely most of the time, considering nobody wants to be around her. Her father abuses her and beats her often, and Mayella wants the abuse to come to an end. Mayella comes up with and fulfills a plan to end the abuse coming from her father. Her plan involved a Negro man named Tom Robinson. Mayella accuses Tom of beating and raping her, and brings

and 30,000 wounded. The Confederate leaders didn’t do a phenomenal job at Gettysburg, therefore they lost . One leader, Richard Ewell, was indecisive, and dilatory towards the Union Army because he didn't pursue them on Cemetery Hill during the battle of Gettysburg. Richard Ewell was born on February 8th, 1817 in Washington, District of

“ There’s four kinds of folks in the world there’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors there’s kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods the kind like the Ewells down at the dump and the negroes “( Lee 23) This is how Jem sees socioeconomic in Maycon from rich to poor the Ewells are second to last since they live near the dump which is very different from the people like the Finch who are on the top and the Cunninghams are in the middle. In a small town like Maycomb Alabama where socioeconomic

S. has increased from “7.4% to 12.3% in only 2 years” (Ney). Poverty in To Kill a Mockingbird is seen in how the Ewells and Cunninghams live. The Ewells underwent poverty because of their habits while the Cunninghams underwent it from the Crash. Although poverty may change someone's ability to work, it will never change who people are. Poverty has drastically affected both the Ewells and the Cunninghams. However, the Cunninghams have shown to be more persistent in getting back on their feet. Mr.

The Ewells and Cunninghams are two families that are quite different. The most obvious difference is their personalities. Burris Ewell is a boy who is rebellious and doesn’t listen to the teacher. Burris even says, “You ain’t sendin’ me home missus. I was on the verge of leavin’ -I done done my time for this year” (27). While on the other hand Walter Cunningham is polite, and tries very hard to be a gentleman. When Miss Caroline tries to give Walter a quarter for lunch her replied in a polite manner

While Mayella Ewell seems just like her father at first glance, she’s much more than that. The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, describes childhood, and the continual decline of innocence. One example of that is Mayella Ewell. Her character is complex, and deserves better growing up. She’s been abused and manipulated by her dad to become a liar, just like him. She was a teenage girl who wanted to live like a teenage girl, but she wasn’t given the same circumstances and opportunities

deserves to be forgiven. To begin with, Mayella was her own parent for most of her life, as Bob Ewell, the drunken man, appeared to be too occupied in other matters and definitely was not a role model. As stated in the text, “and it’s certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains” (29). This represents the fact of how Bob Ewell really did not consider the well-being and stability of his family. Mayella, being the oldest kid

all possessions people have that can make them powerful, but at the same time they can make themselves a powerless person too. Mayella Ewell is a white female who comes from a poor family living in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird, an African American man by the name of Tom robinson is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Mayella Ewell won the case and the trial which sent Mr. Robinson to jail where he eventually got killed. Mayella Ewell’s race was powerful enough to

“‘Mr. Ewell?...Why, Atticus said they were absolute trash-I never heard Atticus talk about folks the way he talked about the Ewells,’” Scout says talking to Reverend Sykes about the court case (Lee 164). In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Mr. Ewell is a citizen of Maycomb, Alabama who is looked down upon in the town. In everyone’s eyes he is the worst citizen and should not be trusted, but there is one group of people that is hated more and that is the African-Americans. Mr. Ewell accuses a

languishing but persevered fisherman in the book the old man and the sea. In book to kill a mocking bird, the author Harper Lee successfully created many different characters with distinct characteristics In Maycomb, especially Atticus Finch and Bob Ewell.  From three different aspects: personality, childhood education, lifestyle, Lee efficiently drew the contrast between them as well as built up images for a caregiving, upright citizen and a cruel, marginal person in old American society. To start