Atticus vs Bob
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"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summers day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum" (Scout, Page 5).
Bob Ewell is like the poor white trash of Maycomb. He is given permission to hunt out of season so he will not beg people for food all the time. Bob is an alcoholic that drinks all of his money away. One day Bob comes home to find his daughter kissing on a black man. He refuses to accept this so he accuses Tom Robinson, the black man, of raping his daughter Mayella...