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Calpurnia In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Atticus is called to an session of the state legislature in Montgomery and leaves the children with Calpurnia. She decides to take them to her black church one Sunday, and this marks the first in-depth interaction with black people in the town that Scout has been only describing up to this point. She and Jem are greatly surprised at how Maycomb’s black community differs from the rest of the town. The church is very poor, with no hymnbooks and virtually no decoration. Jem asks about the lack of hymn-books, and Calpurnia reveals that few people in the black church can read. Scout also learns that Calpurnia leads a very different life outside of the Finch home-she speaks differently(in “n―-talk”, as Scout calls it), and she explains that if she
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