Similarities Between Mayella Ewell And To Kill A Mockingbird

During the Great Depression, most African-Americans didn’t have a voice when it came to many things. This is exactly the case with Mayella Ewell vs Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In a small town of Alabama, there was a trial, for a colored man who allegedly raped a 19-year-old girl named Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson was appointed an attorney named Atticus Finch, who despite having not really met the man believed in Tom’s innocence and is determined to figure out a way to prove it. Even though there was strong evidence to prove that he was innocent the jury still believed he was guilty. The evidence that Mayella and Bob Ewell used proved he was innocent because they were constantly changing the story. The community is at

“Atticus said the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations” (Lee 33) The reason he told Scout this is because he knew it for a fact, Atticus only said things that he witnessed or knew, and how the Ewells treated people led him to believe that they are bad people. Atticus also said that they live like animals” (Lee 33) Most of the time when people live in a bad place or have been raised negatively they will act differently. People pick up on behaviors, especially from their parents or guardians, the way they are raised really says a lot about the person that they will most likely become. Another thing he told Scout was, “they lived by their own rules because they didn’t care about how it would affect others” (Lee 34). Not only that

During the trial, Mayella feels like Atticus is mocking her with the ma’am and miss Mayella when he is showing her the proper respect because she is a young woman. The town knows that Bob Ewell likes to drink and when he does he becomes aggressive, the town has had several incidents with Bob Ewell. During the case Mayella claims, “He does tollable, ‘cept when-” (Lee 208) To which Atticus replied, “Except when he’s drinking?” (Lee 208) Atticus knew that Bob was aggressive, and he knew that he drinks and that when he drinks he gets physical, and since there is no one to take it out on he takes it out on his children. Everyone in the town should also know that he is really strong because he is always cutting things up, so he could have beaten up Mayella Ewell and blamed it on Tom because Tom came around, also because he was a colored man so he had more authority over him. Even after the trial, Bob was aggressive, he did something to the judge’s house, spat on Atticus, and then tried to hurt Atticus’s kids.