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To Kill A Mocking Bird: The Ewell Residence - Online Term Paper

To Kill A Mocking Bird: The Ewell Residence

In To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee gives us a very detailed description
of Robert Ewell, his family, and how he lives.
A good example is the passage in which Robert Ewell testifies in
the Tom Robinson Trial. This is a description of the Ewell's home as well
as an insight into the Ewells themselves. We learn what kind of a father
Robert is and the kind of life into which he has forced his eldest daughter,
Mayella. We also see how the county of Maycomb cruelly discriminates
against the black community even though they are more respectable than
people like the Ewells. Lee uses such detail in the account of the Ewell
cabin because the best way to understand the Ewells is to understand ...

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of the cabin and also tells a little bit about the Ewells themselves. From
this we can infer that the Ewells took very little (if any at all) pride in
their home and it's appearance. Later in the passage Lee adds, "What
passed for a fence was bits of tree limbs, broomsticks and tool shafts, all
tipped with rusty hammer heads, shovels, axes and grubbing hoes, held on
with pieces of barbed wire." By now it is apparent that the only household
repairs the Ewells make are with things they find at the dump. The image
Lee is trying to form of these people is made very obvious by her use of
details.
The passage also gives quite a bit of insight into Mr.Ewell himself.
For example, Lee states, "The varmints had a lean of it, for the Ewells
gave the dump a thorough gleaning every day^Ĺ" This statement informs us
that the Ewells main source of revenue is form the town dump. Quite a
pathetic way to keep ones family fed; but what can one expect for an
unemployed alcoholic like ...

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Added: 2/25/2005 08:06:21 PM
Category: Book Reports
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