Bob Ewell Family In To Kill A Mockingbird

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a worldwide sensation and one of the highest sellers in the world, published in 1960 with immediate success. The plot if the story is based on the 10-year-old author’s (Scout) observations of her family and people in Maycomb, Alabama. The novel is well known for its subtle humour and warmth, along with the severe issues of rape and ethnic inequality. Throughout the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, set in the 1930’s the different social classes are clearly defined from a person’s features, such as a person’s skin colour, their work place or someone’s financial earnings. The finch family start at the top of the hierarchy, then general townspeople, the Cunningham family is and at the bottom are the Ewells. In this time and place, even after Atticus defended Tom Robinson in court, the black community is still below the Ewell family, and because of this, Bob Ewell victimized Tom Robinson to make himself feel better about his poor standards within the community. For young ones, Scout and Jem, they find it hard to understand why people are so cruel and how the people

The way Lee describes Bob is non-flattering and in a way that causes instant dislike for the readers, based on him and his lifestyle. She is showing that there are people out there that will put down others to make themselves feel better, just because they don’t have what others do. In this case, Bob Ewell doesn’t have a loving family, no money, no morals and no motive to make himself or his 8 children better, and that all that Atticus has. Whereas the way she represents Atticus in the novel is in a positive way in which makes the people of Maycomb envious of his characteristics and lifestyle. His fairness, equality and courage is what Atticus is known for. He is the towns perfect person and Harper Lee has made this very clear throughout the