The Ewell Residence in To Kill a Mockingbird :: Kill Mockingbird essays

The Ewell Residence in To Kill a Mockingbird   In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee gives us a in truth detailed description of Robert Ewell, his family, and how he lives.           A good example is the handing over in which Robert Ewell testifies in the Tom Robinson Trial.  This is a description of the Ewells home as well as an insight into the Ewells themselves.  We learn what kind of a start out Robert is and the kind of life into which he has forced his eldest daughter, Mayella. We as well check how the county of Maycomb cruelly discriminates against the black community even though they are more(prenominal) respectable than people like the Ewells. Lee uses such detail in the account of the Ewell cabin because the best way to understand the Ewells is to understand how they live.  For example, she states, The cabins plonk down walls were supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron, its general shape suggested its original design square, with four fiddling rooms opening onto a shotgun hall, the cabin rested apprehensively upon four irregular lumps of limestone. Its windows were merely open spaces in the walls, which in the summertime were covered with greasy strips of cheese cloth to keep out the varmints that feasted on Maycombs refuse. This description paints a very vivid picture of the cabin and also tells a little bit about the Ewells themselves. From this we can infer that the Ewells took very little (if any at all) pride in their home and its appearance.  subsequently in the passage Lee adds, What passed for a fence was bits of tree limbs, broomsticks and rotating shaft shafts, all tipped with rusty hammer heads, shovels, axes and grubbing hoes, held on with pieces of barbed wire.  By now it is apparent that the only household repairs the Ewells make are with things they image at the damn.  The image Lee is trying to form of these people is make very obvious by her use of details.         The passage also gives preferably a bit of insight into Mr.Ewell himself. For example, Lee states, The varmints had a lean of it, for the Ewells gave the dump a thorough gleaning every day&197 This statement informs us that the Ewells briny source of revenue is form the town dump.