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Lack Of Education In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Cloey Burkman
Mrs. Lawson
English 10
11 January 2023 Ruined Potential

A lack of education and knowledge of the real world, along with their consequences can be life-threatening for someone. Basic education is good for everyone. Going to school helps build a social status and relationships through human interaction. When one lacks social interactions it can create a bad relationship with the people around you and enables you to maneuver through life. Here is a text evidence example from the book To Kill a Mockingbird , “How long has your mother been dead?” “Don’t know—long time.” “Did you ever go to school?” “Read’n‘write good as Papa yonder.” Mayella sounded like a Mr. Jingle in a book I had been reading. “How long did you go to school?” “Two year—three year—dunno.” (Lee 207) The Ewells are a poor, uneducated family living in Maycomb County Alabama in the Great Depression Era , who are trying to convict an innocent African American, Tom Robinson, of the raping and beating of Mayella Ewell. The lack of education and exploitation in the world is making it difficult for them to win the case. Mayella's family is at fault for the lack of education and irresponsible actions of both Bob and Mayella

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Ewell looked confusedly at the judge. “Well, Mayella was raisin‘ this holy racket so I dropped m’load and run as fast as I could but I run into th’ fence, but when I got distangled I run up to th‘ window and I seen—” Mr. Ewell’s face grew scarlet. He stood up and pointed his finger at Tom Robinson. “—I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” (Lee 196). Though Mr. Ewell seems very upset over this case, Atticus believes it is a cover to hide what goes on behind the doors of the Ewell

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