Examples Of Calpurnia In To Kill A Mockingbird

A Tomboy Or A Lady?
Scout has already displayed her tomboy tendencies in the previous chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. She plays boys' games, such as football and rolling in a tire; she prefers her overalls to skirts; and she likes to fight. In Chapter 6, she: "leaped over the low wall that separated Miss Rachel's yard from our driveway." She relates a humorous but unladylike story about Mr. Avery's yellow "arc of water." She joins Jem and Dill on their trek to the Radley's back porch, crawling under a wire fence in the hope of getting a peek at Boo. She helps Jem hoist Dill up so he can look inside the Radley window. She trips and falls in the Radley collard patch and then "rolled" through the fence on their way to safety. She "crawled under the fence" that led to the Deer Pasture and then climbed her back fence. Finally, she is implicated in

She notices that Scout isn’t acting like a girl so she went to Atticus and Alexandra and Atticus talked about why she is not acting like a girl. Alexandra thinks Calpurnia is a bad example to Scout becoming a lady. Alexandra is saying this because she found out Calpurnia brought Scout to her church and when they were walking home Scout asked Calpurnia what does ‘rape’ mean. Then Calpurnia told Scout to ask Atticus. So she did. Alexandra and Atticus argued about Calpurnia. Atticus trust Calpurnia with him kids and how she teaches them. On the other hand Alexandra doesn’t trust Calpurnia and thinks the kids shouldn’t either and thinks she need to leave. Scout just wanted to leave this conversation so she acted like she was going to the bathroom. Then she was listening to Atticus and Alexandra talking about it. “I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me, and for the second time in my life I thought of running aways.” (155) Finally Atticus told Scout you will listen to Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra as long she is here and