The Only Exception: Beautiful Flowers in the Ewells' Yard
By: Braxton Bragg Underwood August 2, 1935
The Ewells are not respected members of the Maycomb community. That is a fact and that is because they do not respect anyone else. They do not care what people think about them which is a crime in Maycomb in itself and that is proved in their poor living conditions.
They live behind the town garbage dump. An old Negro cabin is what they call home supported by corrugated iron and hammered down tin cans. Its foundation, uneven limestone, is just like the supporter of the family, Bob Ewell: unstable and destructive. There are four small rooms in this box like structure and their yard was surrounded by a “fence”. It was made out of bits of tree limbs, broomsticks, and tool shafts and topped with rusty hammer-heads, rake heads, and axes! This whole contraption was held together by barbed wire. This yard (although it resembled a prison) was littered with an battered Model-T Ford no longer in use, a discarded dentist’s chair, an old icebox, and dozens of small odds and ends. It was clear that no one cared here as the Ewells house may as well be part of the dumpster itself!
|
Comment Box is loading comments...