To Kill A Mockingbird Calpurnia Quotes

When Atticus leaves on a work trip for the Tom Robinson case, Calpurnia takes care of Scout and Jem. She takes them to her community church, The First Purchase, for black people. When they arrive, a black woman named Lula approaches them. Lula questions why Calpurnia brought white children to their church. She says, “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here-they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal” (Lee 119)? Lula

Calpurnia was the Finch’s African- american housekeeper. She played a huge role in the parenting of both Scout and Jem because Atticus was an only father. Calpurnia helped Scout become more ladylike at the end of the novel by teaching her proper manners and edict. Scout is a hardcore

Scout and Jem went to church with Calpurnia because their father was not home. Since this novel is based in the 1930’s, lots of things are segregated. Black people back then did not get the opprotunity to go to school to learn how to read and write. Calpurnia knew the Finches for a long time and she was taught how to read. When Calpurnia goes to church she talks like the people because she cannot change the fact that they do not want to learn how to talk. This is good for Scout because everyone is different like the Ewells and Cunninghams.

After Calpurnia takes the kids to church with her one day, Scout begins to ask questions while they walk home. She asks Cal why she talks like the other black people while she is at church. Cal tries to explain why she does that. After trying to explain a few times, she says “‘It’s not necessary to tell all you know.’” (Lee 167). Cal explaining this to Scout and Jem changes a lot for them. After this, the kids gets another glimpse of the difference between groups of people in Maycomb. This helps them understand again that everyone is different and that you have to think of other people’s perspectives before you conclude something.

The book,¨To kill a Mockingbird¨ and ¨The Help¨ have people who really appreciate what others do for them no matter the race. By the same token, ¨To kill a Mockingbird¨ Scout, Jem and Atticus treat Calpurnia as if she was family, they don't think less of her or make her feel useless. Scout and Jem are always listening to Calpurnia's advice and are really never impolite to her and treat her as if she was more than just their maid(Lee,np).Atticus never mistreat´s Calpurnia, in all of maycomb Atticus stands out and never looks in the outside and really cares about what's inside, even though everyone else in Maycomb is very judgmental and uncivil without trying.Everyone in Maycomb feels the need to have someone that's less than them so they

“Calpurnia was something else again. She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard.” (Pg 6) This is how Jean Louise “Scout” Finch describes Calpurnia, a black woman who serves as the Finch family cook and maid in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Although Calpurnia is employed by a high social class family she is still considered to be at the bottom of that social hierarchy because of her African-American descent. The Finches believe Calpurnia to be a valuable part of their family because she is a very hard working individual, she’s very motherly to the Finch children and she is an educated and intellectual black woman.

Scout is a very judgmental girl who is quick to judge people if she feels they are different or not what Scout is used to. Growing up as an African-American woman in the 1900’s Calpurnia is used to the harsh judgments of many. Calpurnia makes sure that Scout is accepting of all people no matter their ethnic background. She enforces the importance of being accepting to all on their visit to the black church, “"It's right hard to say," she said. "Suppose you and Scout talked colored-folks' talk at home it'd be out of place, wouldn't it?

Even though black people makes lousy reactions to white children who Calpurnia brought, she keep acts calmly torse them. When Jem and Scout went to the First Purchase African M.E Church “Calpurnia walked between Jem and me, responding to the greeting of her brightly clad neighbors” (Excerpt

The first trait that Calpurnia portrays throughout the story is patience. One way that Calpurnia is patient is when Scout asks her, “Are you that old?” and she responds by saying, “I’m older than Mr. Finch, even”(Lee 165). This shows that she is patient with the children

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout has two women in her life, Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra, who influence her upbringing. While they both have an impact on Scout's life, they are very different from each other when it comes to who they are and their methods of teaching Scout. Even though Scout is living in a time of racism and segregation, her family’s black cook, Calpurnia, has a major effect on Scout as she grows up. When it comes to the Finch family, Calpurnia contributes to Scout’s upbringing in many ways, such as disciplining her, just as a parent would-- "...her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn’t behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn’t ready

First, Calpurnia is relevant to the Finch family. In chapter three she says, “but you ain’t called on to contradict ‘em at the table when they don’t” (Lee 32). That comment confirms that Calpurnia is trying to teach Scout manners and to be polite to their guests. That is important because it shows how Calpurnia is relevant to the Finch family, if she would not have said anything, Walter would have thought that Scout was even more rude than he already did.

    Calpurnia is one of the most influential individuals in maycomb. She is the housekeeper of the Finch family and tries to teach scout proper manners. Along with teaching her everyday manners she teaches Scout tolerance. One time she shows and teaches tolerance is when she is saying to scout, "There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't…” (29) Calpurnia is showing tolerance here by giving Scout a different perspective on the Cunninghams and how they are less fortunate than the Finch family. She doesn’t

P 4 - In most of the novel, we see Calpurnia as a polite, but stern, and literate woman. Cal acts like this whenever she is at the Finches’ house, or when she is around white people. At one point in the book, we see Calpurnia take Jem and Scout to her all black church, First Purchase. Upon arrival at the church, when she is among her friends, she started acting different, according to Scout. She starts talking in southern slang, as opposed to the polished English that she speaks when she is around

As explained in this quote, Scout now realizes that Calpurnia has a life by living in the black community outside of the Finch's household. Calpurnia shows a different side of herself while she's visiting her own church by addressing other black people at the church in a different way than when she is talking to the children at home. She uses the word “nigger” freely with other fellow black people and Scout and Jem feel disrespected because they believe it is a bad word. However, Calpurnia tells them it’s alright to say that because she is black. Scott now realizes that Calpurnia reveals a side of herself that Scout has never even seen before.

Calpurnia has lots of courage bring white children to her black church. People at her church would ask her why she is bringing white children in this church but she would tell them that they behave and that she takes quality care of Jem and Scout. Calpurnia would not be judged by the fact that she was bringing white children inti her church she just held her head up high. She brought them to her Church because she truly loves Jem and Scout and knows her church is a good one, so she wants them to learn good faith. Another reason Calpurnia is a better mother figure than Aunt Alexandra is because Calpurnia tells Scout she can always come in the kitchen if Jem is being mean to her. Calpurnia knows that Jem is getting older and that at times he can be very mean so when this happens she tells Scout she can always come in the kitchen. Calpurnia really loves Scout and is happy to always cheer her up and bond with her in the kitchen. When Scout can be sad her long talks with Calpurnia can cheer her up, it makes Calpurnia feel good to cheer Scout up also. There kitchen talks lead to crying, laughing, talking but eventually