One of the students piped up and said Teacher he is one of the Ewells, the whole school is full of them for one day. They only have to come one day a year and then leave. The Truant lady is afraid of them, and she only gets them here one day by sending the sheriff after them. “Truant lady feels she’s done her duty, and their paw and them is right mean and contentious.” Burris seemed quite proud of the recital given on his behalf and his family, when Miss Caroline told him to set back down; he became mad and very belligerent. He shouted to Miss Caroline to “report him and be damned to her, ain’t no snot-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever born can make me do nothin’. You ain’t making me go nowhere missus, and you just remember that, he
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Mayella Ewell serves a focal point of the southern rape complex because of her gender, and the control exercised over her sexuality by law and culture and even her father. White society or common folk in Maycomb have abandoned the Ewells in all other aspects, despite the fact that Mayella tries to have flowers in the junkyard and takes efforts at cleanliness. The family lives surrounded by dirt and trash by the community dump. They also live in a deserted Negro shack that has no window glass, they live just up from the colored section, and again Bob Ewell hates blacks. Lee portrays the Ewell’s as choosing this kind of life, and home; they are indolent, black-hearted, and dishonest, wards of the state that revel in their circumstances and do not desire to change. They are responsible for their inhumane conditions of living. The entire family is reviled, forgotten, and distanced until Maycomb requires an alliance in the face of racial integration (Halpern 765-766). Some of the forces bearing down on Mayella include class, gender, race, history, morality, as well as familial, social, and legal dynamics. It is certainly provable that Mayella’s gender facilitates her sexual exploitation as she is abandoned to incestuous sexual violence by her father, like Boo she is trapped in her home under the traditional realm of male authority. Her acculturation takes a different path from Boo’s and culminates in the false rape charge she levies against Tom Robinson. “Mayella despite being or clutching to racism proves willing to miscegenation in order to satisfy her desire for sexual intimacy (Halpern
Mayella Ewell serves a focal point of the southern rape complex because of her gender, and the control exercised over her sexuality by law and culture and even her father. White society or common folk in Maycomb have abandoned the Ewells in all other aspects, despite the fact that Mayella tries to have flowers in the junkyard and takes efforts at cleanliness. The family lives surrounded by dirt and trash by the community dump. They also live in a deserted Negro shack that has no window glass, they live just up from the colored section, and again Bob Ewell hates blacks. Lee portrays the Ewell’s as choosing this kind of life, and home; they are indolent, black-hearted, and dishonest, wards of the state that revel in their circumstances and do not desire to change. They are responsible for their inhumane conditions of living. The entire family is reviled, forgotten, and distanced until Maycomb requires an alliance in the face of racial integration (Halpern 765-766). Some of the forces bearing down on Mayella include class, gender, race, history, morality, as well as familial, social, and legal dynamics. It is certainly provable that Mayella’s gender facilitates her sexual exploitation as she is abandoned to incestuous sexual violence by her father, like Boo she is trapped in her home under the traditional realm of male authority. Her acculturation takes a different path from Boo’s and culminates in the false rape charge she levies against Tom Robinson. “Mayella despite being or clutching to racism proves willing to miscegenation in order to satisfy her desire for sexual intimacy (Halpern