The Ewells are characterized as very gross and disrespectful people. The Ewells tend to disobey the laws of Maycomb, their father hunts all year round out of season, so the family can have food, and that he can buy his whiskey. But the family is very poor, the children cry of hunger pains when lacking in food, the whole family has to live behind the town garbage dump, and their father is an alcoholic. They are all very disrespectful, Burris was very rude to his teacher Miss Caroline, he was calling her awful names, and trying to tell her she didn’t know anything. The whole family and its past have been a disgrace to Maycomb for the past three generations. The Ewells are very dirty people, Burris got sent home from school because he had the
