To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis

It is impossible to become a strong, productive adult if one had an abusive or neglected childhood. I disagree with this statement, think about the many celebrities that have come up from poverty and look where they are now. Not only celebrities, but everyday people who have had to deal with an abusive or neglected childhood that have come up and built a nice life for themselves. You can not let your childhood or the way you were brought up affect who you turn out to be in the future. If you don’t like the way you were brought up, don’t put your own kids through what you went through. Mayella Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee Harper didn’t grow up in a good environment, she didn’t have a good childhood, mostly stemming back to her father …show more content…
Dill from To Kill a Mockingbird had a huge imagination and he was a great liar, lying was his way of making his life sound alright like everybody else’s life. He made grand stories and told about him and his dad, come to find out later on in the story none of it was true. Dill ran away from his neglected childhood, he didn’t want to deal with it anymore so he ran from it, but by the end of the story he decided what he wanted to be when he grew up. Just because he was neglected at home, didn’t make him lay down and say he was done. Yes he ran, but he still knew he would do something successful in his …show more content…
The Cunninghams are a good example of overall poverty, but they are hardworking people that do what they can, they are strong, productive people even with their situation. Again the Cunninghams are a fine example that proves the above statement wrong. Dill is an example of neglect, but he comes out of his situation just fine. Once again proving the statement wrong. While the Ewell’s are complete opposites of the Cunninghams and Dill, the children still went through abuse. Even with the abuse, and even though Mayella didn’t make the best decision at the time of the trial when it really counted, I think that she really tried to be better than her father and the rest of the kids that ran around like orphans knowing no better. A sign that she tried were the red geraniums that she planted and took care of, they were something beautiful in her life. While she put Tom Robinson in an awful situation, all she wanted was love. Not neglect or abuse from her father, but love. While Mayella let her childhood consume her, and she’s probably not the only one to do this, there are so many others in the world that have become successful adults and maybe even some that have become more successful than adults that had a good childhood. Partially, my view on this is that when you don’t have everything handed to you, you learn to work for what you have, to value the things you do have, and to do

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