How Does Bob Ewell Have In Common In To Kill A Mockingbird

Bob and Atticus have ideal contradictory lifestyles, but unusually have some elements of their personal lives in common. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is a lawyer in the town of Maycomb, raising his children to be educated and wise, like himself. Bob Ewell, a man poorly raising his eight children and spending his relief checks on whiskey is the opposite of the judicious and pleasing Atticus Finch.

While Atticus is a thoughtful and sympathetic man and whereas Bob is selfish and vulgar, both are single fathers raising their children in the community of Maycomb where the Ewells and Finches have been in for generations. The whole town of Maycomb knows of the Ewells as disturbances in the community, Scout proclaims , "Atticus

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). Since both family backgrounds have been in Maycomb for years, the Finches and Ewells have developed traits from their past ancestors. Atticus is discriminated by Maycomb for defending a black man in the court trial against Bob, “Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one in the courthouse lawing for n-word!” (Lee 105). Both Bob and Atticus have been disdained uponed by Maycomb from the results of the trial. Atticus is segregated because he defends black people, which countless people in the community dislike. Bob is a single father and a widow that shares the same comparison with Atticus, Bob

Atticus and Bob share many disparities between each other, including the way they raise their children, Scout adds , “they can go to school anytime they want to, when they show the faintest symptom of wanting an education” (Lee 30). Atticus wants Jem and Scout to have a better education and have a good future when they are older, Bob, on the other hand, doesn't care about his children's education or what they will grow up to be one day which makes him an awful father. Bob Ewell doesn't have a job and likes to go hunting when he's not conceded to but the government lets him hunt to feed his family, Atticus explains , “and it’s certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains” (Lee 31). The government tries to help the Ewells by giving them paid relief checks but, with the reputation for the past generations, nothing is changing in major ways which leaves with Bob being narcissistic. Atticus likes to teach life necessities to Jem and Scout while they are young so when they grow up they can be good law-abiding citizens similar to him, Atticus justifies , “If you’ll concede the necessity of going to school, we’ll go on reading every night just as we always have. Is it a bargain?” (Lee 31). This is influential because Atticus cares about family, education and how people treat others, Bob is adverse to what