Change occurs in weather, seasons, years, fashion, but most importantly of all change occurs in people. While some characters stay the same, throughout the course of any novel, there are characters in which they, or the way they are characterized, changes. This was made evident in Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. In To Kill A Mockingbird, the character Bob Ewell is first characterized as an uneducated and selfish individual, but by the end of the novel, he developes into a daring, quarrelsome man.
When Lee first introduced Mr. Ewell, he had not yet developed into the person the readers came to know him as, the antagonist. On the contrary, when he was first lead into the story, the worst that was made evident about Bob was that he was selfish and uneducated. The narrator of this novel, Scout, grew up in a loving, caring home in which her father Atticus, a static character, cherished her. On top of that, the prize valued most of all in their family was an education. In the Ewell family however, the
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At least in most cases that stands true. However in the Ewell kids lives it seemed that that was the opposite. Bob Ewells selfish behaviors left the rest of the family fending for themselves. In the exposition of the story the introduction to the dynamic character, Bob, started by stating; “When a man [Bob] spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains” (Lee 31). The above is evidence towards Lee characterizing Bob Ewell as a selfish man. It is hard to imagine someone being so self-absorbed that they are not able to accomplish providing food for their children. Instead of doing the best that he can with the life that he has been given, Mr. Ewell uses money from the government on his wants and his needs only. In the exposition of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee characterized Bob Ewell as an uneducated and selfish