Burris Ewell contains no respect
Burris Ewell contains no respect
"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop... Somehow it was hotter then... bony mules hitched to hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Mens stiff colors wilted by nine in the morning.…
At the beginning of the school year when Miss Caroline was beginning to know the students Burris Ewell was sitting in the classroom when Miss Caroline spotted something moving in his hair and suggested “I think we’d better excuse you for the rest of the afternoon. I want you to go home and wash your hair.” Scout further described him as :the filthiest human I had ever seen. His neck was dark gray, the back of his hands were rusty, and his fingernails were black deep into the quick (Lee 35).” This section of the novel shows how people viewed the Ewell family, not only were they poor but they also took…
He only goes to school on the first day, he’s been taking 1st for his 6th time now. Burris starts arguing with Miss Caroline. Miss Caroline starts to break down and cry. My second reason is Bob Ewell. He hunts and traps out of season.…
To say someone is a mockingbird is like saying they are the perfect person. For someone to be a mockingbird they always find the good in people and they hurt nobody, yet they often have bad things happen to them. The book To Kill A Mockingbird shows how people are mockingbirds, yet they have bad things happen to them. Atticus Finch is a mockingbird, as is Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. All these men do good things, and they never harm anyone.…
Maturity is a flower that doesn’t grow in everyone's garden. Take me for example, in first grade I would chase the people and give them hugs on the playground every recess. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Jem finch starts without a flower of maturity and empathy in his garden. Over the course of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Jem Finch changes from a boy into a young man by developing a feeling of empathy and developing a sense of maturity.…
The phantom that no one knows, never seen, but always there…watching. Watching closely from behind the doors of the Radley Place. This is Arthur Radley better known as Boo from the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. Many only know Boo for what he did to become contained within the Radley house, but don’t know his true heart. I mean how could you?…
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ”(E.E. Cummings) To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a six year old girl named Jean Louise, whose nickname is Scout, living during the great depression. The story follows Scout as she is growing up in a small racist town called Maycomb in Alabama. Every summer, Scout and Jem, her brother, play with their friend Dill and attempt to make their creepy neighbor, Arthur “Boo” Radley, come out of his house.…
Maycomb County, Alabama: an old town filled with simple minded people with worn out expectations. This place is my home, but I don't quite know what to think about it. Sure, I find the town itself to be quite beautiful. I love the plants that bloom during the springtime. I find God's earth to be astounding, but it's a pity that most of the residents of Maycomb aren't much to show.…
For Atticus as a Father, parenting can be a standout amongst the most difficult tasks a man can undertake. There are numerous qualities that are essential to be a modest parent. In "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, there are various characters that show up as parental figures. Atticus is the most authoratative parental figure to Scout in light of the fact that he shows her preeminent life lessons, raised her in an unbiased environment, and gives her unconditional affection. All through this novel Atticus shows Scout what is important in life by showing her timeley lessons.…
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses many different themes and ideas to construct a fluent and interesting story, and those themes are expressed through the many different characters and elements of the story. By using many diverse literary elements and character personalities she presents one story through multiple frames of reference and perspective. In addition, she uses the many unique characters to express the themes of the book. By presenting the themes through the characters it gives the reader a heightened sense of interest which makes them want to keep reading. She then goes a step further and uses basic elements of writing like conflict and plot to enhance the themes that were just presented in the book.…
This would explain why he’s always down the county line since he’s probably not judged as much. Mr. Raymond knows what goes around in Maycomb, yet he doesn’t care what they say. He learned that people are going to talk, so he just minds his business. Calpurnia knows the ways of both the white and blacks of Maycomb. “She asked, in tones I never hear her use……
There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes.’” (Lee 302) This is saying that even the children knew how society in Maycomb was split. There were people who had a good amount of money, people who didn’t really have money and never asked for help, others who had no money at all and lived like pigs, and the Negroes who had to work many many hours for just enough money to get by. In the beginning of the book, we get introduced to Burris Ewell.…
To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book showing how people can grow together. We have Scout and Jem growing up together in an innocent childhood growing into adulthood. We have Tom Robinson, an African American man who, is going to court with Atticus Finch (scouts father) and is trying to defend Tom against the harming white community. Tom Robinson was accused of rape of a white female Mayella. The raping of a white woman by a black man is similar to The Scottsboro Trial in 1933, where 9 black men were falsely accused of raping two white women.…
Imagine a wagon with wooden wheels, helping a family move across a valley. The wheels have to endure all of the bumps, rocks, mud, and water, yet a family will not move anywhere unless the wheels are on the wagon. This is similar to the idea of empathy that Harper Lee is trying to emphasize through Atticus. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she keeps proving through Atticus that even though being truly empathetic toward someone less fortunate than you may bring them down in society, standing up for one another could also make a whole society respect one another.…
Tom was too naive to recognize the ferocity with which the personified “Maycomb” and its residents hated black people. This racism and hate became apparent when Tom’s death became Maycomb’s primary gossip material. The narrator describes the chatter she hears in the days following the shooting at the jail: “To Maycomb, Tom’s death was Typical. Typical of a n***** to cut and run. Typical of a n*****’s mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw.”…