In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee Believes That Bob Ewell represents the worst in mankind.  Bob Ewell is white ignorant disgusting man.  Some might say he is southern white trash.  
	Harper Lee shows that Scout, even though so young, understands to a degree about the way the Ewells live.  “Every town the size of Maycomb had families like the Ewells.  No economic fluctuations changed their status, people like the Ewells lived as guests of the county in prosperity as well as in the depths of depression.”(186)  Bob Ewell could have gotten a job, but decided not to.  He lived off of welfare and probably went out and bought alcohol with his money from the government.  Everything was done for him, life was easy.  Bob Ewell is very a ignorant man, partly because he does not have that much access to the out side world, and will stay with his beliefs that his parents taught him no matter what.  “ Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump  in what was once a Negro cabin.  The cabin’s blank walls were supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron, its roof shingled with tin cans hammered flat, so only its general shape suggested its original design: square, with four tiny rooms opening onto a shotgun hall, the cabin rested uneasily upon four irregular lumps of limestone.”(170)  Harper Lee reveals how not even do the Negro people live better than the Ewells, but Bob feels that he has the right to curse at and make fun of Negroes.  Bob Ewell acted as he did to partly escape his horrible world that he can not, indeed escape.  If it were not for the Negroes, he would probably kill him self out of being board with his life.
	Bob passed down the ignorance to his kids. Instead of taking her anger out on her father, Mayella took it out on Tom Robinson.  She hated  her father, but since he fooled with her mind, she thought she loved him.  “Atticus said, Is the man who raped you?”  “It most certainly is”(186)  Without even thinking she blamed Tom.  Bob Ewell  had destroyed a person.  His own daughter was brain washed by him.  Again and again she lied just to protect her abusive father.  “All right.  He choked you, he hit you, then he raped, that right? It most certainly is.”(187)  Again without thinking, her ignorance took over that her father has made. But she knew that she would regret protecting her father the rest of her life.  She knew he would do it again.
	Bob Ewell shows some of the worst in mankind by doing something immature.  “At that moment Aunt Alexandra came to the door and called us, but she was too late.  It was Miss Stephanie’s pleasure to tell us:  this morning Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he’d get him if it took the rest of his life.”(217)  Bob hates the fact that his life did not get much better after the trial, it just got worst.  He has to have someone to blame this on, so he picks Atticus, the one that reveled the truth to his daughter, him and the court house.  Bob and Mayella hid the truth from them selves during the trial, And when Atticus starting asking questions about Bob, and finally reveled the truth,  Mr. Ewell became furors.  Spitting in Atticus face was one way of reliving him self of that moment, and so he could go on hiding it again.  
	Harper Lee shows that people, no matter how smart they are, can screw up while trying to predict someone else’s actions and how people are truly even more evil than you think. “I think I understand, said Atticus. It might be because he knows hin his heart that very few people in Maycomb really believed his and Mayellis yarns,  he thought he’d be a hero, but all he got for his pain was…. Was, Okay, we’ll convict this Negro but get back  to your dump.  He’s had his filling with about everybody now, so he ought to be satisfied, he’l settle down when the weather changes.(250)  Atticus is thinking very low about Bob, but finds out he was wrong.  Bob had no intention of leaving anyone along.  “Shuffle-foot had not stopped with us this time.  His trousers swished softly and steadily.  Then they stopped, he was running, running toward us with no child’s steps.  Run, Sout, Run! Run! Jem screamed”(261) Bob Ewell showed his true self when he attacked Atticus’s kids. He went for them instead of Atticus, because that is the only thing he knows how to do,  take advantage of people who do not have the same power as him.  He too was probably abused as a child. 
	Harper Lee shows in To Kill A Mockingbird how ignorant, selfish, and racist people effect people around us everyday through Bob Ewell.