To Kill A Mockingbird Calpurnia Character Analysis Essay

A theme of this story is that people are not who they seem they are. Calpurnia has two sides to her in this story. One is the way Calpurnia acts at the Finch’s. Calpurnia talks like a normal citizen of Maycomb. Calpurnia also dresses like a normal citizen of Maycomb. But on Sunday’s she suddenly flips a switch. The way Calpurnia acts on the other side of town across the city borders where she goes to church on Sunday’s. Calpurnia talks a lot different than anyone in Maycomb, the colored people at church say things like “I wants to know why you bringin’ white chillun to nigger church”. Calpurnia and the kids that day dressed up a lot different than the way they dress at home or the way they dress when they go to the store. The morning of Sunday when Scout and Jem woke up Calpurnia had them put on these outrageous clean cuts and perfect clothes. Scout said that when she woke up and say all the starch on her
Dubose has two sides to her just like Calpurnia. One of Mrs. Dubose sides is that she is an elderly woman that does not like colored people. She does not like colored people because of the way she grew up not liking them. Another side of her is an elderly woman who battles her addiction to morphine. Jem takes her abuse until she says something mean about Atticus, and that finally gets to him. That afternoon on his way back from town Jem takes Scout's new baton and breaks off all the blossoms of Mrs. Dubose's camellia bush. Atticus sends him down to apologize to her and she insists that Jem read to her for two hours every afternoon for a month. He does it and hates every minute of it. Not long after his sentence ends, Mrs. Dubose dies and leaves Jem a perfect camellia blossom. Atticus explains that she was a morphine addict, and she died after freeing herself from her addiction. Atticus considers her one of the bravest people he knows and he wanted Jem to see that about her to. All in all those are just two themes of this amazing story that is not over