How Is Calpurnia's Coming Of Age In To Kill A Mockingbird

Have you unfairly judged someone based on the way they look? In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, one of Scout’s coming-of-age moments is when she watches Atticus from the balkan during the trial of Tom Robinson, eligible to rape Mrs. Mayella. Lee uses conflict and deception to convey the theme that judging someone without being in their shoes is wrong.

In the novel, Scout was an arrogant kid who later had a coming-of-age moment where she starts to understand her community more; for example, I felt Calpurnia's hand dig into my shoulder. What do you want, Lula?" she asked, in tones I had never heard her use. She spoke quietly, contemptuously. I want to know why you bringin' white chillun to nigger church." "That's my comp'ny," said

Again I thought her voice was strange: she was talking like the rest of them. "Yeah, an' I reckon you's comp'ny at the Finch house durin' the week." A murmur ran through the crowd. "Don't you fret," Calpurnia whispered to me, but the roses on her hat trembled indignantly. When Lula came up the pathway toward us, Calpurnia said, "Stop right there, nigger." Lula stopped, but she said, "You ain't got no business bringin white chillun here-they got their church, we got ourn. It is our church, ain't it, Miss Cal?" Calpurnia said, "It's the same God, ain't it?" Jem said, "Let's go home, Cal, they don't want us here." I agreed; they don't want us here. (145-146) Lula shows her aggression in defending this church because there are limited places where colored people can be and Calpurnia brings Scout and Jem causes her to become upset at her since white people are more privileged than colored people. Scout in this all black church understands the Jim Crow Laws better since she has really had experience of what it feels like to be a different race. As Cal, Jem, and Scout return home from the color church, they stumble upon Alexandra, who is Atticus' sister. When Atticus came home, she asked Scout if she wanted her to stay and “I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but