The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, is a story that takes place in the 1930s in a small town called Maycomb, that is on the grips of the great depression. This novel is an intriguing story that told from a young girls, Scouts, perspective. Throughout the story Scout learns many lessons from her nanny, Calpurnia, and her father, Atticus. She sees many things that girls her age usually aren’t able to witness. Such as witnessing the injustice of the court system, in an unfair case, where an innocent man is accused of a crime that someone else committed. Mayella Ewell accused someone of raping her, when everyone knows that it was really Mayella’s father, who did. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird portrays Mayella Ewell as a young girl who is a victim
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Her father, Bob Ewell is the victimizer of Mayella being a victim. Bob is a bad person who treats everyone poorly, especially Mayella. With the little money that the family receives, Bob spends it on alcohol for himself. Mayella is the victim of poverty, because the family is extremely poor. Since the money that the family has is spent on other things besides food, Mayella and her siblings have to hunt out of season just to get food to survive. “Atticus said that Ewells had beer a disgrace to Maycomb for three generations. None of them had done an honest day of work in his recollection...they were people but they lived like animals...’There are ways of keeping them in school by force, but it’s silly to force people like the Ewells into a new environment” (Lee 30). Bob uses his relief check on liquor while the …show more content…
The two most important people in your life are your parents. They help you through tough times and protect you from evil, but, Mayella has the opposite. On top of her mother dying when she was little, having to support her family because her father doesn't care about anything besides getting drunk, not being educated, and living a dirty life, Mayella is tortured every day. She is raped and abused by the one person who is suppose to protect and love her, her father, Bob Ewell. He is a bad man who makes bad choices and can’t seem to support his family. “The first thing was that Mr. Bob Ewell acquired and lost a job in a matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the nineteen-thirties: he was the only man I ever heard of who was fired from the WPA for laziness” 27 Bob Ewell is a bad man who can't even hold down a job. He treats his daughter poorly every day, by torturing and raping her for his own pleasure. He gets drunk to where he can barely walk and beats Mayella up. “She reached up an‘ kissed me ’side of th‘ face. She says she never kissed a grown man before an’ she might as well kiss a nigger. She says what her papa do to her don’t count. She says, ‘Kiss me back, nigger.’ I say Miss Mayella lemme outa here an‘ tried to run but she got her back to the door an’ I’da had to push her. I didn’t wanta harm her, Mr. Finch, an‘ I say lemme pass, but just when I say it Mr. Ewell yonder
Her father, Bob Ewell is the victimizer of Mayella being a victim. Bob is a bad person who treats everyone poorly, especially Mayella. With the little money that the family receives, Bob spends it on alcohol for himself. Mayella is the victim of poverty, because the family is extremely poor. Since the money that the family has is spent on other things besides food, Mayella and her siblings have to hunt out of season just to get food to survive. “Atticus said that Ewells had beer a disgrace to Maycomb for three generations. None of them had done an honest day of work in his recollection...they were people but they lived like animals...’There are ways of keeping them in school by force, but it’s silly to force people like the Ewells into a new environment” (Lee 30). Bob uses his relief check on liquor while the …show more content…
The two most important people in your life are your parents. They help you through tough times and protect you from evil, but, Mayella has the opposite. On top of her mother dying when she was little, having to support her family because her father doesn't care about anything besides getting drunk, not being educated, and living a dirty life, Mayella is tortured every day. She is raped and abused by the one person who is suppose to protect and love her, her father, Bob Ewell. He is a bad man who makes bad choices and can’t seem to support his family. “The first thing was that Mr. Bob Ewell acquired and lost a job in a matter of days and probably made himself unique in the annals of the nineteen-thirties: he was the only man I ever heard of who was fired from the WPA for laziness” 27 Bob Ewell is a bad man who can't even hold down a job. He treats his daughter poorly every day, by torturing and raping her for his own pleasure. He gets drunk to where he can barely walk and beats Mayella up. “She reached up an‘ kissed me ’side of th‘ face. She says she never kissed a grown man before an’ she might as well kiss a nigger. She says what her papa do to her don’t count. She says, ‘Kiss me back, nigger.’ I say Miss Mayella lemme outa here an‘ tried to run but she got her back to the door an’ I’da had to push her. I didn’t wanta harm her, Mr. Finch, an‘ I say lemme pass, but just when I say it Mr. Ewell yonder