Friday, July 24, 2015

Besides going after his kids, how else does Bob Ewell try to 'take down' Atticus for not staying on his side, in To Kill A Mockingbird?Its an essay...

Reminiscient of the street scene in Verona of
Romeo and Juliet, when the Montague servant, Sampson, bites his
thumb in an insulting gesture toward Abraham, a servant of the Capulets, Bob Ewell
stands outside the courthouse of Maycomb and spits tobacco onto the face of Atticus
Finch.  This public gesture before the municipal building in which Bob Ewell has
been interrogated at the trial of Tom Robinson is deliberately chosen by the father of
Mayella Ewell.  For, he wishes to deal insult for insult, just as the Montague servants
and Capulet servants do with each other.  Because he feels that Atticus Finch
has insulted him and Mayella at the trial by exposing their lies rather than adhering to
the "code" to take a white's word against that of a Negro no matter what he says, Ewell
spits tobacco in Atticus's face as he might spit on a bug on the sidewalk.  This act of
Bob Ewell, a resident of the lowest side of town, toward a lawyer, a prestigious
member of the community, cannot be construed as anything other than a most
contemptuous gesture. 

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