History Fridge / ToKillAMockingbird

*** It’s not out of the question. Recall the scene in the film where Jem and Scout tag along in the car with Atticus to the Robinson house. While their father is inside updating the family on the trial, Bob Sewell appears out of the dark, peering into the car at the Finch kids with a grotesque look on his face. He stares daggers at Jem, but the lecherous way he looks at a sleeping Scout in the front seat is downright ''vile''. For a film from the 60s, it is shockingly clear what his intentions toward Scout would be.

*** It’s not out of the question. Recall the scene in the film where Jem and Scout tag along in the car with Atticus to the Robinson house. While their father is inside updating the family on the trial, Bob Sewell appears out of the dark, peering into the car at the Finch kids with a grotesque look on his face. He stares daggers at Jem, but the lecherous way he looks at a sleeping Scout in the front seat is downright ''vile''. For a film from the 60s, it is shockingly clear what his motive toward Scout would be.

*** It’s not out of the question. Recall the scene in the film where Jem and Scout tag along in the car with Atticus to a meeting with Helen Robinson at night. While he’s inside updating her on the trial, Bob appears out of the dark, peering into the car with a horrible look on his face. He stares daggers at Jem, but the lecherous way he looks at a sleeping Scout in the front seat is downright ''grotesque''.

*** Considering that Bob beat on his daughter, it could be all three, based on everything else. It's known she's the oldest of 8, however, at the same time, besides Mayella's statement, no one knows how many Ewell kids there are (though it's implied the kids don't attend school, unless "Ewell"'s a common surname), combined with how divorce laws were in the 1930s .

* The titular Mockingbird represents innocence. Atticus tells his children that they can shoot all the bluejays they want, they must remember that in his words "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". When Scout asks Miss Maudie what that means, she says that Mockingbirds "don't harm any living creature" and "sing their hearts for us". Tom Robinson is the Mockingbird of the book - he couldn't have committed the crime but the town and the justice system of the time conspire to convict him anyway.

** grows geraniums, which can be taken to be a DoubleMeaning, as those flowers symbolize stupidity, however, they can symbolize what Mayella wants, like good wishes and friendship, while her middle name (Violet) could represent how she doesn't "fit in", thus is very lonely. Mayella ''wants'' to be better than her surroundings, yet, at the same time isn't.

*** Considering that Bob beat on his daughter, it could be all three, based on everything else. It's known she's the oldest of 8, however, at the same time, besides Mayella's statement, no one knows how many Ewell kids there are (though it's implied the kids don't attend school, unless "Ewell"'s a common surname), combined with how divorce laws were in the 1930s.

** Maudie grows azaleas, which are flowers that stay beautiful when they're in terrible conditions. Despite leaving in a town like Maycomb, she's stays the most compassionate, loving, and strongminded person there and keeps being pleasant in spite of it.
** Mayella grows geraniums, which can be taken to be a DoubleMeaning, as those flowers symbolize stupidity, however, they can symbolize what Mayella wants, like good wishes and friendship, while her middle name (Violet) could represent how she doesn't "fit in", thus is very lonely. Mayella ''wants'' to be better than her surroundings, yet, at the same time isn't.

** Mrs. Dubose's camellias represent her courage to quit morphine, however, they also represent her and Maycomb's racist/bigoted views, as, her views, like Maycomb's are deep-rooted and hard to get rid of.

** Maudie grows azaleas, which are flowers that stay beautiful when they're in terrible conditions. Despite leaving in a town like Maycomb, she's stays the most compassionate, loving, and strongminded person there.

** Mrs. Dubose's camellias represent her courage to quit morphine, however, they also represent her and Maycomb's racist/bigoted views, as, her views are deep-rooted and are hard to get rid of.

** After Bob's death, she's probably getting the welfare money now.

** After telling this to my sister, she came up with two alternate theories: 1.Mrs. Ewell died in a horrible way, and Mayella tried to forget the trauma or 2. Bob's been sleeping around.
*** If Bob were sleeping around he would leave the children with their respective mothers. He is not the type of person who would bring the kids home with him. Also why don't the mothers ever visit the children?

** There's also the fact that when Tom says Mayella told him "what her Daddy do to her don't count" in court yet it is not followed up, not even by Atticus. Unfortunately it is TruthInTelevision that at the time children who accused their parents of any type of abuse where often seen as lying to some end unless there was other evidence.

*** Interesting note, actually, if you take into account that is isn't uncommon, even unto so-called modern times, where if a girl had a baby young and the father couldn't be found, said child would be [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo played off as a younger sibling and often adopted or told as such]], along with the fact that Mayella's mother is dead and her father doesn't say those are her siblings (actually, I don't recall him mentioning them), along with her apparently being the oldest of ''eight'' children, then it would make sense that the some, particularly the youngest, of the Ewell children are hers.

*** That is implied to have been part of the reason, the other is because he wants to.

* Tom Robinson had one working arm and assurances from Atticus that he'd likely have his conviction overturned on appeal. He's probably wasn't trying to climb over the prison walls when the guards killed him.

* In ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', the Ewell family is full of small children being raised by the eldest sister, Mayella Ewell, and nominally supported by the abusive father, Bob Ewell. It's said in the book that Mayella can't remember her mother. That means that Mayella must have been very young when her mother died. Well then, since there's clearly no stepmother in this family, where did all these small children come from...oh. OH.

*** He said she told him this while asking him to kiss her. Kids reading may think she was talking about innocent "good night" kisses or the like, but re-reading the novel years later would make them realise that Bob Ewell [[AbusiveParents isn't the kind of father who gives good-night kisses]] and that, at nineteen (and a half), Mayella Ewell is too old for goodnight kisses anyway. This may have been done intentionally by Lee to shield children from the implications of ParentalIncest.

*** Interesting note, actually, if you take into account that is isn't uncommon, even unto so-called modern times, where if a girl had a baby young and the father couldn't be found, said child would be played off as a younger sibling and often adopted or told as such, along with the fact that Mayella's mother is dead and her father doesn't say those are her siblings (actually, I don't recall him mentioning them), along with her apparently being the oldest of ''eight'' children, then it would make sense that the some, particularly the youngest, of the Ewell children are hers.