To Kill A Mockingbird Passage Analysis Essay

Passage 2
In the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, this passage is a description of the Ewell’s that Scout provides during the Tom Robinson Trial, describing their household as well as a perception of the Ewell’s in general. We, as readers are able to understand what kind of a father Mr. Ewell truly is, and how his daughter wants to make a change. Moreover, near the end of the passage, we can see how the white people of Maycomb cruelly discriminate Negroes, even though they have a more tolerable and enjoyable life compared to people like the Ewell’s. This just comes to show how it does not matter what type of life you have been born into, be it royalty, poverty, white, or black, it will always come back to what you want to do, what changes you want to make in your life.
Just from the first paragraph, Scout introduces the characters and setting, she gives us some insight on the Ewell’s in general/overall. “The varmints had a lean time of it, for the Ewell’s gave the dump a thorough gleaning every day.” You can see that the Ewell’s clearly were not the richest of the families as they went through the garbage dump near their house to find food and other valuables. This allows tells the reader that Mr. Ewell did not care about his
“It was necessary either to back out to the highway or go the full length of the road and turn around; most people turned around in the Negroes’ front yards.” This sentence shows you that when people, primarily white, were able to take a shortcut through this road where a Negro settlement was, they decided to turn around because they didn’t want to continue on a road where Negro’s lived. This was because the whites thought that the Negro’s were not pure, regulated, and likable human beings, proving the racial