Bob Ewell Is The Protagonist In To Kill A Mockingbird
J. Koon
October 10, 2014
English 2
Ms. Dianne Hartness
To Kill a Mockingbird Essay
In To Kill a Mockingbird the lessons of hard life are learned it’s easy to see that life isn’t always as it seems in Maycomb County Alabama. In To Kill a Mockingbird there is Scout; Scout is the protagonist or the “good” guy because although her home is placed in a racially tensed Southern town she over sees this aspect and learns from it she also is the lead character who narrates the novel. Bob Ewell is a perfect example of the antagonist or villain in the novel the way he has such utter disregard for other human beings. We see the disregard when the Tom Robinson case begins showing the true racial and overall disregard for others. The Ewells are an uneducated family which is looked down upon in Maycomb community. The Ewell children only attend school on the first day to avoid the law. A student in the first grade told the teacher, "He's one of the Ewells, ma'am They come first day every year and then leave You're supposed to mark em absent the rest of the year " (27). This shows why the …show more content…
Just run up behind me, he did. He got me around the neck, cussin’ me an’ sayin’ dirt- I fought’n’hollered, but he had me round the neck. He hit me again an’ agin-“ This is a portion of Mayella Ewell’s side of what happened when sitting on the stand. This is a prime example of the when the true Bob Ewell emerges at the point when his daughter Mayella Ewell cries rape by Tom Robinson. When Atticus Finch, Scouts father and Tom Robinsons attorney, questions him on his accounts of what had happened on the night of the alleged rape, Atticus asks questions that prodded the line on whether Bob Ewell had something to do with it and Bob’s attitude fully changes and he becomes angered with how he thinks he is the one being accused
October 10, 2014
English 2
Ms. Dianne Hartness
To Kill a Mockingbird Essay
In To Kill a Mockingbird the lessons of hard life are learned it’s easy to see that life isn’t always as it seems in Maycomb County Alabama. In To Kill a Mockingbird there is Scout; Scout is the protagonist or the “good” guy because although her home is placed in a racially tensed Southern town she over sees this aspect and learns from it she also is the lead character who narrates the novel. Bob Ewell is a perfect example of the antagonist or villain in the novel the way he has such utter disregard for other human beings. We see the disregard when the Tom Robinson case begins showing the true racial and overall disregard for others. The Ewells are an uneducated family which is looked down upon in Maycomb community. The Ewell children only attend school on the first day to avoid the law. A student in the first grade told the teacher, "He's one of the Ewells, ma'am They come first day every year and then leave You're supposed to mark em absent the rest of the year " (27). This shows why the …show more content…
Just run up behind me, he did. He got me around the neck, cussin’ me an’ sayin’ dirt- I fought’n’hollered, but he had me round the neck. He hit me again an’ agin-“ This is a portion of Mayella Ewell’s side of what happened when sitting on the stand. This is a prime example of the when the true Bob Ewell emerges at the point when his daughter Mayella Ewell cries rape by Tom Robinson. When Atticus Finch, Scouts father and Tom Robinsons attorney, questions him on his accounts of what had happened on the night of the alleged rape, Atticus asks questions that prodded the line on whether Bob Ewell had something to do with it and Bob’s attitude fully changes and he becomes angered with how he thinks he is the one being accused