How does Mayella differ from her father and her siblings What is her relationship with her father like?

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In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, the relationship of Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell began as a positive relationship but quickly became a negative relationship once Mayella gave into her destructive impulses. Mayella Ewell’s lonely homelife, the terms of Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell’s relationship, and Mayella Ewell’s betrayal of Tom Robinson in the end led to their ambiguous relationship’s demise.
Mayella Ewell is a nineteen year old girl. She lives with her father and many siblings in an old cabin. Mayella Ewell’s father is rarely helpful to her and is usually drunk. When Mr. Bob Ewell is under the influence of alcohol he often becomes abusive to Mayella. Mayella and Bob Ewell are the only two literate person in the household. When Mayella was younger, she went to school for a few years, but she stopped attending when she became old enough to work. Because she is always busy, due to her father's laziness, Mayella has no friends that are the same age as herself. Mayella’s one and only friend in the world is Tom Robinson, the black man who works…show more content…
Because Mayella was so lonely and ashamed of what she had done, Mayella accused Tom of raping her even when he resisted all of her sexual advances. When the case was taken to court, the jury ruled that Tom was guilty mainly because of his skin color.
In conclusion, because of this negative relationship, Mayella did something that was socially unacceptable, Tom was shot dead, and there was corruption throughout Maycomb County. Some men felt so much anger toward Tom they tried to kidnap him from jail just so they could kill him on their own. I believe the lesson the author, Harper Lee, is trying to teach is that unlike Mayella, we need to take responsibility for our actions. We should not allow other people to suffer consequences due to our own actions on other people like Mayella did to

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Mayella is shown to be different from her father and other siblings because she is always clean and keeps healthy. She is also in charge of their household and the kids. Mayella's father, cares less about keeping clean and does not take care of the kids. Unlike her father and sibling, Mayella is depicted as an innocent individual who is in a terrible situation. Mayella is not violent alcoholic like her father.

Mayella has an abusive relationship with her father. Mayella's father beats her and forces her to carry out all the work in the house. Mayella has to put up with since she has no where to escape to. The cries of Mayella cannot be heard in the town since the family is uneducated and poor.