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Examples Of Calpurnia In To Kill A Mockingbird

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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 …show more content…

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

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Ain't he, sir” This quote shows that Scout just realized that she interrupted a mob that was on the way to kill her father and that her friendly neighbors that she sees everyday are easily persuaded to do a awful crime and that the world is not as a happy place as she thought and that there is evil in this world. Later in the story Scout Asks “What’s rape cal?” 127 And a very similar one that talk about the same thing is “well if that’s all it was why did calpurnia dry me up like that when I asked her”(135) Calpurnia does not really tell Scout exactly what rape is during this scene due to the fact that she views her as being too young to understand. When Atticus really does tell her later Scout clearly doesn't fully understand the seriousness of the conversation or topic.

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Could a young girl live with only one parent. Yes, if many influences are present. Scouts character has matured because of the closet to her. Calpurnia, Atticus and Aunt Alexandra have changed Scout, throughout the book by the various lessons they taught her,that changed her perspective on how she viewed situations and developed her character.

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Alexandra would then make her wear and do things that she didn't want to do and this greatly upset Scout. But it wasn't to long before Alexandra realized that everyone is different and Scout didn't want to live like a lady. Alexandra accepted that idea and backed off of Scout. She would even bring her a pair of overalls to mark her forgiveness.

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The message Calpurnia was trying to get across was that although Walter might be poor, you should not treat him like he is something less. Since Scout is young, she fails to understand this lesson in the moment, but realizes this later on in the novel when she is an adult reflecting back at how everything has impacted her. Atticus also teaches Scout about courtesy. This is a big part of the novel because she understands this lesson as she

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And that is when she did not tell her father about how she felt about having Aunt Alexandria in her life. “I could have made several answers to this: Cal’s a girl, it would be many years before I would be interested in boys, I would never be interested in clothes… but I kept quiet” (Lee 180). Here in this quote you can tell that Scout is thinking why aunt Alexandra had to come stay with them, when Calpurnia is there. She is starting to have knowledge and think about how things are going to

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IN the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout finch, a daughter to Atticus and a sister to Jem Finch. Scout is an innocent five year old girl at the beginning of the book, but by the time the book ends she is a 9 year old girl finding out just how evil things can be. Scout is a young girl with a free spirit. She speaks her mind all throughout the book witch make the book very comical, as the novel goes on it is obvious that scout is an outspoken, intelligent, and brave girl.

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Calpurnia serves as an amazing role model and mother figure to the children, and yet Aunt Alexandra wants to fire her. She had raised Jem and Scout, and plays an indispensable part of their lives, showering them with discipline, structure, and love. Aunt Alexandra, however, barely existed in the children 's lives up until she moved into the Finch’s home, yet she inflicts great injustice on Calpurnia by failing to recognize the necessitous part of the family that Calpurnia fills. Scout even overhears Aunt Alexandra saying, "...you 've got to do something about her. You 've let things go on too long Atticus, too long.

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Lula promotes racial discrimination Whereas, Calpurnia encourages identical rights for both white and black residents of Maycomb. Moreover, Calpurnia believes in mixing of the two cultures. When Calpurnia escorts Scout and Jem to the church Lula states, "You ain't got no business bringing white chillun here”. Lula stands up for the black and shows rage towards the Jim Crow laws. Jim Crows laws state no blacks at the white church.

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Scout is a tomboy and she usually solves her problems with her fists. Atticus is one of the only people that accept Scout for who she is. The rest of her family is constantly trying to make her act more like a lady and this is enforced greatly when her

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Unable to satisfy this center in her lower mindset, Aunt Alexandra accepts Scout for who she is and achieves a higher or growth mindset. By giving Scout the same overalls that Aunt Alexandra has once hated, Aunt Alexandra displays that she is satisfied with Scout and is not constantly trying to change her into a person who she is not. After Atticus tells the family about Tom Robinson’s death, “Aunt Alexandra [sits] down in Calpurnia’s chair and [puts] her hands to her face” (ch.24; 236). Instead of creating a separation between

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Before they started to climb the fence, Scout thought about what Atticus would think if he found out. She was about to be show rectitude. She wanted to back out and go home. She knew that it wasn't a good idea. A few minutes after Scouts discouraging thoughts, Jem and Dill called her a girl and said that she would slow them down anyways, which made her thoughts dispel and just made her mad because she didn't like being stereotyped by her gender because she could do things that they could too.

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Throughout the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” written by Harper Lee, the readers can see how Scout changes her view about Boo Radley. Because of their nosiness, Jem, Scout, and Dill try to drag Boo out his house and to the outside world. Their innocent actions combined with Boo’s actions changed the image of Boo, in their minds, from “a malevolent phantom” (10), a person who kills cats and eats squirrels to a neighbor they can trust, who saves them from Bob Ewell. Scout says at the end, “Boo was our neighbor” (373). The readers can see a great change in their relationship.

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Aunt Alexandra is the sister of Atticus Finch, she moved into Atticus’s house for a while to help take care of the kids while the trial was about to happen and tries to add femininity to Scout’s life. Aunt Alexandra gives her opinions about Atticus defending Tom, which represents another opinion about the town. In the beginning of the book when she first came, she wanted to change her, “‘We decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence. It won’t be many years, Jean Louise, before you become interested in clothes and boys—’”(145). When Aunt Alexandra said this, Scout didn’t care for it at the moment, but maybe she wasn’t old enough to.

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In the novel, Lee uses Scout to demonstrate how the expectations of society are pushed onto girls at a young age. One of the characters who forces these expectations onto Scout is Aunt Alexandra. Often times she ridicules Atticus for allowing Scout to wear breeches and be “unladylike.” During the Christmas party at Finch’s landing, Scout and Alexandra have a conversation about what is proper to wear.

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Aunt Alexandra thinks that Scout needs to “have some feminine influence” (170). Being a typical southerner woman, she's the ideal person for this role. Therefore, she decides to come live with the family for a while. Aunt Alexandra represents the old-fashioned southern person.

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