Ewell Family Analysis Essay

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In this paragraph I am going to characterize the Ewell family. First off, their family life is bad because they have a mean father and they do not have a mother. Their father does not work and can not hold down a job to save his life. When he does get money he spends it on whiskey, and does not care for the children. Imagine life without your mom, the woman that cares for you, cooks for you, and listens to you when you need a friend. The Ewell children do not have that important piece in their life, the piece that helps them grow and become profound people. They have to figure it out on their own, and that is a tough task because while they are trying to do that they are also trying to be children. In addition to that, their father does not make them go to school, so they only go to school …show more content…

Every once in awhile you need that important person in your life to remind you that the schooling can only help you. The Ewell’s do not have that person so they do not think it is worth it and do not know the importance of it. Their father never went to school so he does not get why he should make his children go either. Not only is their father mean but he also breaks the law, he hunts and traps out of season. He has to hunt and trap all the time because the little money he does get he goes and spends on whiskey. When he spends all the money the children do not have food to eat, so he has to go and trap some dinner. Hunting out of season is a misdemeanor at law, but nobody reports him because they know that the children need that food. “They were people, but they lived like animals.”(Lee 40). Lee puts it in the perfect way, they hunt for their food and do whatever they want like animals. Their family life is bad but they are also very rude, Borris the boy in Scout’s class is very rude to the teacher because he does not listen to

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