To Kill a Mockingbird Essay: Comparing Atticus Finch and Bob Ewell
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many events that affect the town and people of Maycomb Country, Alabama. Taking place during the Great Depression, things happened a lot differently than they would have happened today and affected the people differently than they would today. Atticus gaining the job to defend Tom Robison made a lot of chaos in this little town leading to threats, attacks, and even deaths.
The judge, John Taylor, gave Atticus the job to defend Tom Robison, a colored man who was accused of raping a white woman, because Atticus was the only lawyer who do a good job of defending him. Bob Ewell, the father of the woman who was “raped” despised Atticus for making the decision to defend Tom. While Bob and others in the community are making comments about Atticus, and even giving him threats, Atticus is the bigger person and just goes along as it doesn’t offend him. By letting all the mean comments fly by,
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During the trial, Atticus made it extremely clear that Tom was indeed innocent. When Atticus was questioning Bob, we learn more about the lives of Bob and his eight children, living by the dump and with no mother, Mayella has to take care of all her younger siblings. Also, Bob drinks the money he gets from the government, meaning they are one of the poorest families in the area. As the trial is coming to a close, and Harper Lee tells us more about Bob’s character, the readers can easily tell the Tom is innocent. However, the jury said Tom was guilty meaning he will be sent to jail. Atticus knowing he would lose in the end, still put all the work into defending Tom as he was Tom’s lawyer. Numerous people in the town, including Bob, could not bear Atticus due to the decision he made to truly defend Tom. Atticus however, just wanted to make a change in his