Bob Ewell The Man In The Mirror Analysis

The Man in the Mirror Drugs, alcohol and other addictive substances can change our way of not just thinking, but on the way we act towards other people and ourselves as humans. We become very different if we ever abuse the objects that can modify our lives forever. For Mr. Ewell alcohol was his addiction. But for Miss. Dubose she was addicted to Army issued morphine. This produced an extreme high that is only used to block pain for soldiers in extreme pain during World War I and World War II. When she was mean to Scout and Jem she was attempting to stop her addiction. She abruptly stopped taking the addictive drug, when this happens a process called withdrawal occurs and you become in a state of pain. Bob Ewell was a malicious
When scout ran into Bob Ewell he made an uff noise, but that wasn’t from Scout running into him. He made the noise because he stabbed himself with his own knife by accident. “Bob Ewell fell on his knife, He killed himself” (366). Atticus thought Jem did it, but the sheriff, Heck Tate, said Bob Ewell fell on his own knife. When Bob Ewell committed this act of attempted murder he was drunk on whiskey. He planned this act because it was in a secluded spot at a late time of night. Despite the fact he was drunk he could think clearly about what he was going to do. The alcohol pushed him over the edge; he tried to murder kids who did nothing to him. He wanted to do it because he wanted to get back at Atticus the best way he can. If you want to truly hurt someone you would want to hurt the ones he or she loves the most. Heck Tate said Mister Bob Ewell would never face Atticus face to face. He never had the guts to talk to Atticus. He would just go as low as killing two
Dubose was a druggy that wanted to kick her addiction right out the door and never see it again. A woman at her age trying to kick her addiction is an amazing thing. But when Jem and Scout passed by her house she would always yell at them. She would say to Scout she has to be more of a woman and to stop acting like a boy. She shouldn’t have worn coveralls as her day-to-day wardrobe. Miss. Dubose was a buffoon for thinking she could change Scout by yelling at her. Whenever the children passed the house Scout was scared of the old woman living in the house with the nurse that took care of her. The main reason Miss Dubose was angry and always disgusted with her neighbors was because she was suffering from withdrawal. Withdrawal is when someone suddenly stops taking a certain drug that was taken during a long amount of time. The process of withdrawal includes moodiness and severe pains in the abdominal areas. Miss. Dubose let her anger out on the people walking by her house and making up problems she saw automatically. One time when Jem and Scout passed the house Miss Dubose made fun of Atticus, Jem became aggravated because he loved his father and he didn’t want his father to be disgraced. “Jem and I hated her. If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing” (132). They hated her