To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

The town of Maycomb made him the target, continued to set him up and made him the victim. As a person has been trapped by the cycle, destroying him and mentally being tricked to reteaching said cycle. We are clearly shown that much of what Mr. Ewell does is built upon a foundation spanning several generations, if the cycle isn't real why would the name Ewell continues as being associated with such negativity. And that he has trapped his kids to the same cycle has himself. “Atticus said the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations. None of them had done an honest day’s work in his recollection. He said that some Christmas, when he was getting rid of the tree, he would take me with him and show me where and how they lived.

Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?” (Lee 31) Mr. Ewell is drinking alcohol, prohibition has just recently ended and given a man who is receiving monthly checks in his situation, no one has posed the question as to where the income has gone? His kids are clearly not receiving proper food as he is permitted to hunt off season. It isn't right, everyone in town knows he is an alcohol addict yet the authorities do nothing to intervene for the sake of the kids or even Mr Ewell's wellbeing. He should not be labeled for a problem he can't stop, it's an addiction he does not need to be placed upon a pedestal and called a title, he needs support, help and care. All others in the book that are labeled as drunks are seen in a negative light, odd, off, bad. There is no support given to those who clearly need it, closely locked community has pushed him out, discarded him and forced him into the situation he is in, that's his drinking is not his fault as he is not the attacker intentionally, because subconsciously he is the victim. To Kill a Mockingbird makes the ideas of Mr. Ewell seem villainous, unjust, inhumane, however at the time the book takes place is he really so out of

Ideas that his tattered mind sees at the way to some sort of meaningful fulfilling conclusion. In Mr. Ewell's mind it is evident that he saw an opportunity where he could be something more than the poor dump man. This would be his path to becoming more than disgraceful, or so he thought. “It might be because he knows in his heart that very few people in Maycomb really believed his and Mayella’s yarns. He thought he’d be a hero, but all he got for his pain was… was, okay, we’ll convict this Negro but get back to your dump.” (Lee 253-254) The fact that others in story see this occurring, placing the pieces together shows that everyone knows his goal. They knew he was lying, called his Bluff and we're too focused on making sure a person of color like Tom Robinson did not win in their courtroom. They chose the lesser of two evils at a time divided through the color of one's skin. Ignoring the fact that they knew he was lying, everyone did, they gave him the win and send him back to his dump, he was no hero. A man with a broken heart and a broken mind tossed away back to where he was before. Mr. Ewell won the case but there is no closure, no bright ending so he keeps going. Mr Ewell has unfinished business, someone who is clearly mentally unstable, someone who lied under oath who is a criminal is still roaming. They don't care about Mr. Ewell's well-being, they need someone to pin the blame on, That is why they