Difference Between Cunningham And Burris Ewell

The otherwise vague distinction between Walter Cunningham and Burris Ewell in To Kill a- Mockingbird becomes increasingly more transparent overtime as the reader begins to “read between the lines” and comprehend the actions and descriptions of both characters. Harper Lee’s way of contrasting the difference between both characters (Walter and Burris) is initially vague because the reader would usually tend to “clamp” on the fact that both are poor and relatively uneducated, though to different extents. However, the idea of this essay is to prove the alternative notion by which both characters, although similar at first glance, are entirely different through their own psychological behaviors, history, and what the foundation of their own habitual actions are (e.g. farm life, a contentious father, etc.) Concepts of medical research will be implemented to provide a source of documentation and resourcefulness to further emphasize the contrast

Even though his parents were not notoriously successful, he was raised upon a loving family- and in doing so, the process of plasticity would allow Walter’s neurons to be stimulated in the way that he acted with the morals from which his parents resided him from. Perhaps, although too technical, this could be the explanation of why Walter, although just as poor as Burris, behaved differently than his egotistical counterpart. Like the polar hatred between the Capulet and Montague family in Shakespeare 's notorious Romeo and Juliet, Burris and Ewell would have some, yet rudimentary similarities. However, to the reader’s avail, both have their own differences, all of which get more obvious as the story progresses. It is only inferred by the reader that such differences have their sources from atypical styles of living, a economically-destroying Great Depression -and most imperatively- their own individual psychology and developed mindsets from which they were raised