Compare and contrast the description of the Ewells' home and the black neighborhood nearby. What similiarities do you notice? What differences? What conclusions might Harper Lee want the reader to draw about the Ewells and the black families who live nearby based on the descriptions of where and how they live?
Although, the black neighbourhood was poor, it was also very neat and tidy. The people who lived there took pride in what they had. The Ewell's home is contrasted by reflecting the family itself:
"The cabin's plank walls were supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron, its general shape suggested it's original design: square, with four tiny rooms opening onto a shotgun hall, the cabin rested uneasily upon four irregular lumps of limestone. Its windows were merely open spaces in the walls, which in the summer were covered with greasy strips of cheese cloth to keep out the varmints that feasted on Maycomb's refuse."
To Kill a Mockingbird
The black neighborhood was poor and degraded but they were neat, they had pride in who they were and so their home was nowhere near as dirty and undignified as the Ewell residence. The Ewells reap what they sow, none of the kids go to school, making them unintelligent. Their father is a deadbeat who can’t get a job,their house represents the mental state of these kids, and me.Ewell live in. Scout knows this and so, in her description she emphasizes on the appearance of the Ewell residence because that is their trademark of insanity.
To Kill A mockingbird
