To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes

Evil: I think that Bob Ewell's should be in this column. On pages 227-234 is where Atticus is asking Bob questions about what happened the night of Mayella’s “rape”. During this whole court case Bob was joking in the beginning about Mayella and it was clear that he doesn’t care much for Mayella. He also uses very inappropriate language in the courtroom. On page 230 Bob says “I got to the fence I heard Mayella screaming like a stuck hog inside the house.” as you can see he is not very polite. Bob also splits in Atticus’s face after the trail. Bob says that he’ll get back at Atticus for the court case. The way that Bob gets back at Atticus is by trying to hurt his children. Bob breaks Jem’s arm, but then is killed by Boo Radley. Overall Bob did not grow in this story and still remained the ugliest and evilest character of all (in my opinion).

Transitioning: I think that Aunt Alexandra is at the transitioning stage in

He for one doesn’t fall into the stuck up category. Atticus knows that is better off than most people are and instead of showing off he shows other how to behave. For instants with the Cunningham’s he could have turned his head when they needed help because they couldn’t pay. Instead he told the cunningham’s it was fine and to take all the time they needed to pay him back. Atticus also takes on defending an African American. Not many people would do this back then people they were racist and rude. When Atticus took on this case he knew that they didn’t have a shot at winning, but he took it on anyway because he knew it was the right thing to do. The town was rude and disrespectful to Atticus, but Atticus never backed down. Atticus also did his best to defend Tom and overall with all the evidence Tom should not have been guilty. After the trial Atticus is still shunned by the town and is even split in the face by Bob. Atticus just simply walks away because he knows that its the right thing to