Saturday, January 24, 2015

Provide seven passages about Bob Ewell with page numbers.

I'm
unsure of which version of the text you have, so the page numbers might be off a little bit.
 

Bob Ewell and his family are brought up very early in the story.is telling
her readers about how the Ewell children always show up at school on the first day and then
never again. Scout goes home and askswhy she can't have the same arrangement. Atticus then tells
Scout a little bit of the family background of the Ewells. He tells Scout on page 31 that the
Ewells are granted certain privileges in Maycomb because the rest of the town intentionally
turns a blind eye. He then gives the specific example of Bob being allowed to hunt out of
season.

He said that the Ewells were members of an
exclusive society made up of Ewells. In certain circumstances the common folk judiciously
allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of the Ewells
activities. They didnt have to go to school, for one thing. Another thing, Mr. Bob Ewell,
Burriss father, was permitted to hunt and trap out of season.


Scout is appalled at that and asks why. Atticus then explains, on the same page, that
Bob is a drunk, and his family suffers because of it.


Its against the law, all right, said my father, and its certainly bad, but when a
man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger
pains. I dont know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their
father can hit.

Atticus then finishes the conversation
about Bob Ewell by saying that Bob is more or less a lost cause. This quote can also be found on
page 31. 

". . . hell never change his
ways."

Page 125 has a great line about Atticus's
opinion of Bob Ewell. Scout has just asked Calpurnia why people are upset at Tom Robinson and
his family. Calpurnia explains what Bob is accusing Tom of, and Scout says to Cal what Atticus
says about the Ewells.

Mr. Ewell? My memory stirred.
Does he have anything to do with those Ewells that come every first day of school an€˜ then go
home? Why, Atticus said they were absolute trashI never heard Atticus talk about folks the way
he talked about the Ewells."

On page 168, Mr. Gilmer
is questioning Heck Tate about the night that Bob Ewell reported the supposed crime. The quote
is important because it helps to show how racist Bob Ewell is.


Mr. Tate said, It was the night of November twenty-first. I was just leaving my
office to go home when BMr. Ewell came in, very excited he was, and said get out to his house
quick, some niggerd raped his girl.

On page 175, Bob
Ewell is being questioned on the stand, and that's when he forcefully and publicly states his
accusation against Tom. Again, Bob can't even say Tom's name.


He stood up and pointed his finger at Tom Robinson. I seen that black nigger yonder
ruttin on my Mayella!

On the next page, readers are told
just how proud Bob is of himself for so completely taking control of the courtroom's mood with
his statement.

As Judge Taylor banged his gavel, Mr. Ewell
was sitting smugly in the witness chair, surveying his handiwork. With one phrase he had turned
happy picknickers into a sulky, tense, murmuring crowd, being slowly hypnotized by gavel taps
lessening in intensity until the only sound in the courtroom was a dim pink-pinkpink: the judge
might have been rapping the bench with a pencil.

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