How Does Bob Ewell In To Kill A Mockingbird

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“Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves.”-Proverb
In TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD, Harper Lee uses Bob Ewell to present the idea of revenge and how he acts upon it even though they victims may be innocent. Bob Ewell is a white male who is known to be a drunkard. His family, includes Mayella Ewell and his other 7 children. Mayella’s mother died when she was 2 years old which made Mayella the surrogate mother of the family. Bob uses his welfare checks to get alcohol instead of trying to take care of him or his kids. The Ewell family lives in a shotgun shack out by a dump because they are poor and considered “the disgrace of Maycomb”. Bob seeks this revenge because of Atticus, his humiliation after the trial, and Helen Robinson.
After the Tom Robinson trial, Tom got a death sentence but Bob was not satisfied. He started to seek revenge to the people who wanted him to get a non-guilty verdict. One of those people are Atticus, the father of the Flinch Family. Atticus is defending Tom Robinson so he wants to kill him but he is too much of a coward. He attacks Scout, Jem, Judge …show more content…

His reasons for seeking revenge are Atticus exposing him, being humiliated in front of Maycomb, and Helen Robinson. His intentions where in an overall bad place. When trying to get revenge on Atticus by attacking Scout and Jem he ended up following them after a recital. He was drunk as he attacked them .he broke Jem’s arm and attempted to stab Scout. Boo Radley came in to save the day. He pushed Bob off of scout and he ended up falling on his knife. Karma came back to him. Bob accused an innocent man and made him get a death sentence, after a while the victim died. Bob had another thing coming, he thought he was in the clear but turns out he would die as well. Bob took that journey of revenge and not only did his victim die, but so did him. “What comes around comes back

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