Who Is Bob Ewell In To Kill A Mockingbird

‘The disease of Maycomb’ they called it. Not a sickness nor just a name, it was their way of living and that was all they knew. But soon Maycomb would realize they had nothing to fear but themselves. In Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, it tells the story of the lives of Scout and her brother Jem, children growing up in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s. The children become entranced with the idea of getting a glimpse of their reclusive and unseen neighbor, Boo Radley. Meanwhile, their attorney father, Atticus Finch, has been chosen to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a local white woman, Mayella Ewell.Tom Robinson was charged guilty then tried to escape getting himself killed, the father of Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell, was out for the Finches and

Scout and Boo have just come out of the house and start toward his house, once she stops on his front porch and looks out she suddenly sees the past two years from Boo Radley's view and what he must have been feeling when they did the things to try and get him out. Scout thinks to herself “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough”(Lee 148). Scout is starting to realize what true perspective is when she finally understands what Atticus meant when he said you need to put yourself in other shoes. Scout really starts to put herself in Mr.Radley shoes when she steps on his porch because that is where he has seen the world from and everything that Scout and Jem have done over the years. She does not only start to see what Mr. Radley must have seen but she also starts to feel his heartbreak over Maycomb's disease, but also the Joy when they roll into his yard in their