Bob Ewell came after Scout and Jem to hurt them. He had a knife. Boo Radley intervened and Bob Ewell was stabbed with his own knife. The cover story, though, was that he fell on his own knife.
The sheriff thinks Jem killed Bob Ewell.
tate knows that Boo Radley killed Bob Ewell!
He kills Bob Ewell. By killing Bob, he prevents Jem and Scout from getting killed.
Bob Ewell spat in Atticus Finch's face and threatened him on the street the next day after the trial.
At the end, when the sheriff says he took a pocket knife off a drunk man, he only telling a half truth. He found the pocket knife on Bob Ewell, meaning that Bob Ewell had not in fact fell on his knife, the kitchen knife, as the kitchen knife was brought in by Arthur Radley. So his weapon was actually the pocket knife. Yeh, that's right.
it was boo... couldn't you tell..
Bob Ewell was killed by Boo Radley in October after he attacked Jem and Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird." Boo intervened to protect the children and ended up fatally stabbing Bob Ewell in self-defense.
Have you not read the book AT ALL?He says that he fell on his own knife and killed himself."Mr. Finch," Mr. Tate said stolidly, "Bob Ewell fell on his knife. He killed himself."- Chapter 30
Mayella Ewell.
When Bob Ewell saw Tom and Mayella he beat mayella. Later Bob and Mayella will say that Tom beat her and raped her.
It was not a kid, it was Mr. Bob Ewell, Mayella's father.
he fell on his knife after Boo pulled him off of scout