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Examples Of Whatever To Fit In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Do Whatever to Fit In Calpurnia speaks “proper” and acts “proper” for a black women in the Finch household. But why and how does this make her different from other African American women in this society. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird features Calpurnia as Scout and Jem’s strict and loving black maid. She is like a part of the family, so much alike so it is noticeable that she acts and talk “properly” unlike other typical African Americans in the society of Maycomb. The children, Scout and Jem, notice her change of dialect when she is around black people to white people. Calpurnia is not like other African Americans because she changes her dialect and slang to fit in with the crowd she is talking to whether they are white or black to
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