To Kill a Mockingbird Essay When families come upon hard times, every family reacts differently. A prime example of these differences are the Ewells and the Cunninghams in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. The Ewells and the Cunninghams are large, white families in the mid-1900’s. They have many similarities but their differences are severe and the reasons behind this is in heads of the houses. As said before, both the Ewells and the Cunninghams are big, white families. Both are financially unstable and have trouble supporting their families. They’re known for having constantly having an absurd amount of children. Both are deeply in debt and hardly have a hope of ever getting out of it. This causes a stressful environment. The Ewells
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The head and representative of the Ewells is Robert Ewell. The representative of the Cunningham family is Walter Cunningham, father of Walter in Scouts class. Bob Ewell could get enough money to feed his family if he really tried and stopped buy unnecessary items such as alcohol. Walter Cunningham may be able to get out of debt as well if he abandoned his farm and got an industrial job. Cunningham refuses to let his land die however and so the family lives in poverty. A clear difference is that Bob Ewell has no sense of honor nor humility unlike Walter Cunningham Sr and both men raise their children to hold the majority of their beliefs. In the classic book by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, two families live in poverty. The Ewells and the Cunninghams are similar in a few ways but are different in many more because of their providers, the fathers. Every family reacts differently to hard situations and the Cunninghams and Ewells are only two examples. "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”(Lee
The head and representative of the Ewells is Robert Ewell. The representative of the Cunningham family is Walter Cunningham, father of Walter in Scouts class. Bob Ewell could get enough money to feed his family if he really tried and stopped buy unnecessary items such as alcohol. Walter Cunningham may be able to get out of debt as well if he abandoned his farm and got an industrial job. Cunningham refuses to let his land die however and so the family lives in poverty. A clear difference is that Bob Ewell has no sense of honor nor humility unlike Walter Cunningham Sr and both men raise their children to hold the majority of their beliefs. In the classic book by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, two families live in poverty. The Ewells and the Cunninghams are similar in a few ways but are different in many more because of their providers, the fathers. Every family reacts differently to hard situations and the Cunninghams and Ewells are only two examples. "They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”(Lee