Calpurnia In To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

Figure Of Speech:
Characterization: Calpurnia was something else again. She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn’t behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn’t ready to come. The reason I picked this was because it’s explaining who Cal is , it’s explaining how she was bossy always ordering him out and how she was nearsighted. Like in the book she disciplines everyone in the household as well as acts like a mother figure. Cal seems very trustworthy because, Atticus lets Cal watch and take care of his children and Atticus thinks of Cal as a part of the family. Cal just seems like a genuine person throughout the story, well so far. Cal is her own person, she doesn't take anything from anyone and over all she just seems like someone you’d want in your life , to be a good figure for you.

Analysis Of Literary Element:
Metaphor: “summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree-house, summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape. “
This is showing Lee’s
The people today might be racist and stereotypical but it was bad back then too, it’s not just our generation today like people say it is but the media shows it and portrays it that way. It’s also showing that kids can get into it too, it’s showing the fact that kids are apart of the everyday life of people being racist and being stereotypical and they are being raised somewhere like that they're going to start to believe it and be racist and stereotypical when they're