parental duties. Luckily for Atticus‚ Calpurnia is around to pick up some of the slack. Without Calpurnia‚ Jem and Scout would not be nearly as well behaved as they gradually become. Atticus’s career would also take a dive‚ with no one to watch Scout and Jem while he works. Finally‚ Calpurnia also takes care of exposing Jem and Scout to new things‚ something every parent should gradually do for their child. In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Calpurnia is the closest thing Jem and Scout
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physical conditions of life.” Chapter 17‚ Home Economics‚ shows the struggles Callie Vee faces with her species: humans‚ and specifically her mother. They have different ideas of what she should be learning to survive and what lifestyle Calpurnia should lead. Calpurnia tries to nourish her mind with science and in that way exist to her full potential‚ but her mother would like to develop her into a wife who cooks and knits for a successful man. This is where the rest of the human species comes in‚
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To Kill a Mockingbird 1. “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.” Speaker: Atticus Shows his strong sense of character about doing what is morally right to do‚ regardless of what others think He is not persuaded by the rest of Maycomb’s racist ways. Racism is a prominent factor in the novel Sets a good example‚ he is a leader in Maycomb‚ and for his children “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy
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“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up peoples gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 90). This quote exemplifies one of the most important themes of this work as Miss.Maudie touches on the idea that‚ without reason‚ humans are often unnecessarily cruel to one another. Tom Robinson‚ he was shot 17 times for trying to escape. At the trial the judge did
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I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In chapters 10 through 15 the trial becomes one of the main topics and causes many conflicts. Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with the Finch family‚ which leads to some quarrelling. In this journal I will be characterizing Atticus and questioning whether Calpurnia or Alexandra is an excellent mother to the children. As I am further reading To Kill a Mockingbird I begin to characterize Atticus. I characterize Atticus as a caring and wise individual
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In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee illustrates bravery through the characters in a town in the south called Maycomb in the 1960s. Their names are Atticus Finch‚ Tom Robison‚ and Calpurnia to educate her readers that courage comes in many forms to exemplify that courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. In Chapter 9‚ Atticus Finch demonstrates bravery when he intends to defend Tom Robinson to teach his southern neighbors to character not color. “Simply because we were licked a hundred
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hit’ em‚ but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee‚ 119). What I like about this quote is‚ it symbolizes Jem‚ Scout and Boo Radley. At first‚ I was curious why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird‚ but reading some of the lines‚ I understand that mockingbirds makes music that enjoys the people in Maycomb‚ and also they don’t do irritating thing such as usual birds would do‚ such not nesting in “corncribs”‚ and not eating up people’s gardens. Mockingbirds are a type of bird that are very
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“Perhaps Calpurnia sensed that my day had been a grim one: she let me watch her fix supper... ‘I missed you today‚’ she said.” To Kill a Mockingbird’s loveable Calpurnia lives her life switching between the different personalities society has forced upon her; Calpurnia is the motherly authoritative women in the Finch’s’ home‚ the quiet maid when around privileged whites‚ and the native “nigger-talking” lady in the black community. Even though Calpurnia is the African-American cook and housekeeper
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Kaci Cato Mr.Peach English I 2A 22 February 2013 “Until You’ve Climb into His Skin and Walked around in It” During the depression in Alabama‚ many people‚ no matter what race‚ were encountering hard times. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Haper Lee‚ Scout learns life lessons through experiences throughout her childhood. In her community and her household‚ Scout watches and interacts with all kinds of people. In the book‚ Scout learns something new about the people of Maycomb in each chapter
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are many people in To Kill a Mockingbird that have significant influences of Scout and Jem’s actions. The two that stood out boldly to me‚ however‚ were Atticus and Calpurnia. Atticus‚ being the children’s father‚ tought his kids many moral lessons. Calpurnia acted as a mother to Jem and Scout. Throughout every chapter these two characters were making connections that only parents can do. They both inflicted fundamental influence on the children. Atticus and Calpurnia were both essential characters
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