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Next, Bob Ewell is a poor and selfish man, all he wants is revenge for what happened to his daughter, to do that he scares people. Bob Ewell is a discgrace to his family and to the town. As a matter of fact, he wanted revenge on Atticus, Tom Robinson and Judge Taylor. To get his revenge on Atticus he went after his children. “He was running, running toward us with no child’s steps. ‘Run, Scout! Run! Run!’ Jem screamed. … , almost carrying me with him. I thought, Jem’s up” (Lee 261- 262). He got his revenge but it didn’t go as well as planned. Jem thought Cecil was coming to scare them, at the time of the attack Jem was first and so Bob broke his arm. Scout was saved by her costume even thought she was stabbed, she was so scared. Despite that,
Tkam Essay Moral cowardice has been around since the beginning of mankind. In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee there are many examples of people who do stuff that is morally wrong because they do not want to stick out and be pointed at. This essay explains how Bob Ewell is the biggest moral coward, and Atticus is the bravest character. First of all, in To kill a Mockingbird Bob Ewell is the biggest moral coward because his actions are not based on his beliefs and morals but because he does not want to be caught and is too afraid of the truth. He will not do what is right because he know he will be shunned and laughed at.
Atticus calls up his first witness, “Bob Ewell.” He asked questions like “Would you ever beat your daughter?” and “Where you on the night of the crime?” Bob Ewell answered that he never has beaten his daughter and was somewhere else at the time of the crime. After that, he asked Bob to write his name, and Atticus not...
Bob Ewell decided to get back at Atticus for the Tom Robinson case by attacking his kids. Boo Radley saved Scout and Jem by stabbing Bob, but Heck Tate is insistent on saying that Bob fell on his knife. Atticus agrees and then explains the situation to Scout. Scout explained to him, “‘Yes sir, I understand,’ I reassured him. ‘
In To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Bob Ewell assumes the racist, biased, and unjust motivations in order to retain any scrap of dignity in Maycomb County. Bob Ewell sees that he has been bested, and that the town knows the truth, however, he is able to abuse his racial standpoint, using racism to scapegoat his actions. The town, even though they all are aware that Bob Ewell is guilty, has been racially obligated to oppress Tom Robinson, due to the racist roots embedded in the town.
Jean Louise, Scout, was subjected to more evil than racism. Robert Ewell, a violent alcoholic, attempted to murder Scout and Jem in a drunken rage. Mr. Ewell appeared in many places throughout the book, and it was his daughter, Mayella Ewell, who pressed false charges against Tom Robinson for the offense of rape and battery. Almost every time Ewell was mentioned, he was portrayed as either violent or totally inebriated. He used the welfare checks that he received, not to purchase food for the family, but to buy booze for his personal consumption.
Imagine a world where anyone who was born with brown hair got to give orders to anyone born with blonde hair. If you're born with brown hair, you could have better careers and the better education whereas the blondes wouldn’t even been given a fair court trial. If something like this happened overnight, there would be a huge uproar, but what if it happened over time and generations grew to accept it? Eventually, people would start to argue that brown haired people were naturally superior to blondes. If you were living in a tiny town in the Deep South, such as Maycomb, you’d have even less of a reason to question the status quo. Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird is trying to teach his kids, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” Furthermore, the largest forms of discrimination in the novel are racism and classism.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, many notable themes arise, but the most prevalent theme is undeniably the theme of man’s inhumanity to man. At the beginning of the novel, we are introduced to Scout Finch, who is naive and oblivious to the discrimination that occurs in Maycomb. However, through many events and through meeting many characters, we soon begin to realize that the world may not be so nice after all. Our suspicions are only confirmed once we witness the terrible injustices that occur during the trial. The predominance of inhumanity throughout the novel is what makes it such an important theme.
Boo is a secluded and shy man who never leaves his house. There are only rumors of Boo creeping out when it’s pitch dark outside. Besides those rumors, he is always kept locked up inside his house with “the shutters and doors closed” (9). It is not until one day, when Jem and Scout are walking along the road coming home from a Halloween event at school that Boo Radley comes out from his house. The children are walking silently home when they suddenly heard the shuffling of someone’s shoes. Not before long, Bob Ewell runs straight towards the children, knife in hand. While the children are being tackled, there is a “crunching” (262) sound of Jem’s arm, and he is left on the cold and damp ground. Scout is so entangled that it is hard for her to see. What she does manage to see is a man carrying Jem home. This man is Boo Radley. When Bob Ewell is fighting the children, Boo has to make a decision on whether or not he wants to reveal himself. In the end, Boo ends up fighting off Bob Ewell and saving the childrens’ lives. Even though Boo is always locked away from the rest of society and doesn’t want to be seen, he gets over his fear and fights for the children’s safety. He truly shows courage because he stands by what is right and leaves his house to save Atticus’s
First, the trial of Tom Robinson is an eye-opening experience for Jem and Scout; there they discover hatred, child abuse, and lying. Seeing pure hate is new and strange for Jem and Scout. They know that prejudice does exist, but listening to and watching Bob Ewell during the trial is astounding to them because Bob Ewell abhors all blacks, especially Tom Robinson. Bob’s daughter, Mayella, makes an advance on Tom, which is absolutely unspeakable and shameful at that time. In addition, Bob Ewell’s hate grows (especially for Atticus) because after the trial his reputation and respect is ruined, even though he does not have a high degree of integrity to begin with. Also, through the
What is the first thing you think of when you think of cruelty? Prejudice, Criticism, Horrible person, Slaves, Abusive Physically and Mentally, how people treat people, Animal Abuse, Child Abuse, Satanic, Mean, Red, Math, Torture, Hurtful, Hateful. These are the answer I got when I ask what people what their opinion was. It seems as though these are all correct, as everything on this list has some sort of cruelty. There is no wrong answer to this question. To Kill a Mockingbird is an eccentric book that takes place in the 1930’s explaining how the blacks are treated against the whites. In basis a form of cruelty
Scout and Jem are very close. They are very protective of each other and worry about each other often. When Jem, Scout , and Dill went to the Radley house at night Jem’s pants became stuck on the fence. Jem went to retrieve his pants and Scout wanted to come with to help and protect him, but Jem did not let her because he was protecting her making sure that she would not hurt herself. When Jem was gone Scout waiting for him to return because she was worried he would hurt himself. Another example is when Jem and Scout were attacked by Bob Ewell. Before they were attacked Jem thought he heard someone following them so Jem walked with his hand on Scout’s head worried about her and trying to protect her. When Mr. Ewell attacked them, they were trying to help each other and protect each other. After the attack while Jem was unconscious Scout was even more worried about Jem then she was before. Scout learns from Jem as well. An example is that Jem taught Scout and Dill the history of the Radleys and the superstitions that the town has of Boo Radley. The actions of Jem and Scout reveal the close relationship that they have with each
Not long after, Scout and Jem knowledge that their father, Atticus will defend a black man, Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping and violence attack on a white woman, Mayella Ewell in a trial. Despite disagreement and mocking of Maycomb’s citizens, Atticus stands on his decision to defend Tom Robinson. While Atticus role as the lawyer for Tom, the children face the impact. As a tomboy, Scout has been fighting with other kids a lot and led ...
Atticus is more well respected by the people of the town than Bob is. Atticus is a lawyer, and he works hard. Bob Ewell though is not a respected person at all in the town, because he is rude to everyone. Also, he is lazy with no job. One example of how Bob is unrespected is when the author wrote, “ this morning Mr.Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he’d get him if it took the rest of his life.” A second difference between the two characters is that Bob is a bad father to his eight children at home, he is the one actually suspected to have been the one to rape Mayella. Bob Ewell neglects his kids, and abuses them all. He spends his relief checks on green whiskey, since that’s all he spends it on his kids have no food. The Ewell kid’s stomachs growl and they cry from their hunger pains. On the other hand though, Atticus is a great father to his two kids. He is a good example for his kids, and cares about his kids. He has respect for his kids and treats them as adults, and Scout and Jem treat him with the same respect. Atticus expects his children to stand up for what they believe in, and does the same for himself. He does not feel he can tell them one thing then do the something
After being exposed and embarrassed in front of the town during Tom’s trial, Bob targets people who he believes have wronged him. Since he put Tom in the center of the entire situation, he is angered when Tom's wife, Helen, is given Tom's old job. Bob believes the town should treat the Robinson family as trash because of his claim against Tom. He takes his revenge by harassing Helen while she walks by his house on the way to work. Lee writes, “She turned and walked on, and Mr.Ewell kept the same distance behind her until she reached Mr. Link Deas’s house. All the way to the house, Helen said, she heard a soft voice behind her crooning foul words”(334). Helen is harassed to the point where she avoids Bob at all costs. Furthermore, when Helen finally tells somebody it is only because of a threat to the police that Mr. Ewell stops. However, since his revenge efforts have been ceased with Helen, he escalates his efforts by attacking Atticus’s children. His plan to attack the children is fueled by his hate toward Atticus for working with Tom and for exposing him in court. Bob understands that revenge against Atticus would be most baneful by hurting his children. During the attack Scout illustrates, “I felt Jem’s hand leave me ... and there came a dull crunching sound and Jem screamed...He slowly squeezed the breath out of me”(351). Drunkenly, Bob Ewell attacks Jem and
Atticus has a hard time choosing whether to tell the town that Bob Ewell died of an accident, or whether his son or Boo Radley killed Bob Ewell. Atticus is a famous lawyer in Maycomb and he believes in legal justice. Atticus learns what had really happened from Scout?s explanation of what she had seen, and heard when Bob Ewell attacked them while walking back from the school play. He understood that Bob Radley killed Bob Ewell in order to save Jem?s life. Atticus does not want to send Boo to court for the fact that Boo saved his children?s life.