beni hanna wrote:
formerlyknownas wrote:
Telegram Sam wrote:
formerlyknownas wrote:
Yeah, so....Jessica was in one of my classes for a few weeks back in 2008-ish....
Don't you teach English? How many times a year do you have to explain that The Ewell's are not the protagonists in
To Kill a Mockingbird?
Ha!! Believe it or not, some readers connect with the Ewells the most....and that reminds me of an awesome band name: Busted Chifforobe.
Interesting. I wouldn't have predicted that, but I guess I should have recognized the possibility.
There are good reasons for it: They're poorer than most, even in the Depression, and even the other whites in the town refer to them as trash. At the end, the Sheriff says, well, you just can't change trash like that. And then there's the abuse....people feel bad about that. They family is basically a giant straw man character.
Those are the evil white folks, right there!! Not us. Everything awful a family can be, you can find it in the Ewells. It's really a flawed book--amazing, but seriously flawed.
Race and rape--and the family story--are at the center of the book, but the class antagonism is there, too. Unfortunately, I don't think the writer was conscious of it. (EDIT: family shit)
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rogers park bryan wrote:
This registered sex offender I regularly converse with on the internet just said something really stupid
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