Spend time writing a plan for at least three of the questions below.  I would suggest using mind maps and then sharing them with a partner.  You can also take pictures of them and upload them to your blog.

For part A of each question – which specific quotations from the piece will you use – why?  How does the language device help to enhance the meaning and have an effect on the reader?

For part B, you must refer to specific instances and evidence taken from the novel and then relate this to your contextual knowledge.

(b) How does Lee present Mayella Ewell in the novel as a whole?

(24a)

The details Lee uses in this passage I believe present the position of the Ewells in Maycomb society of a family that are filthy, have a low status in society, they’re very poor and the children never go to school.

My reasons can be supported by these following quotations: “lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin” and “no public health officer could free them from congenital defects, various worms, and the diseases indigenous to filthy surroundings”. These quotations gives the impression that the Ewells don’t care about their living conditions, as they lived behind a garbage dump, or their personal hygiene as they’re surrounded by filth and they harbour so many diseases that they can’t even be cured from.

Quotations that presents the Ewells low status in society are: “no economic fluctuations changed their status” and “people like the Ewells lived as guests of the county in prosperity as well as in the depths of a depression”.

No truant officers could keep their numerous offspring in school

(24b)

Harper Lee presents Mayella Ewell in the novel as a vulnerable, lonely woman who has been forced to grow up fast, someone who was unfortunate in the environment she had to be brought up in and was mistreated by her father.