In Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the character of Calpurnia is hidden in the background of the text but plays a highly significant role in most of her appearances. Calpurnia is the Finches’ African American housekeeper and has a strong with both the Finch children‚ which allows her to greatly affect their lives. As an example‚ Calpurnia’s wisdom about life and social status in some capacity has been passed onto Scout during dinner with Walter Cunningham‚ "Hush your mouth! Don’t matter
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It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird; a theme repeated often in this title. It means that taking away someone’s innocence or faith in life is bad‚ and prejudice can do just that. The disease of prejudice and how it makes some people act can kill someone’s innocence‚ Jem at one point loses all faith in the world and forms cynical views on life (304). Although having innocence is good‚ because of prejudice‚ because of hate‚ because of ignorance‚ one can lose faith in the world and start to realize that
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CALPURNIA Calpurnia enters into the story very early on in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ and is an integral part in the story. She works for the Finch family as their cook and mother figure. We get a very clear picture of Calpurnia in Chapter One. “She was all angles and bones.” This suggests the maybe she doesn’t have much money to buy food or that she is older. It also shows that she is older because “She had been with us ever since Jem was born‚ and I had felt her tyrannical presence for as long
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 17/11/12 SA’ADATU SHU’AIBU Calpurnia is the woman we all see as the mother figure at the Finches house. At the beginning of the book the narrator (scout) shows off Calpurnia as a strict but caring woman‚ who was always there for the kids. As we get to the point of her confrontation with Lula‚ we learn more about the character. Harper lee uses dialogue to portray Calpurnia with a split personality and also not being prejudiced. The dialogue Harper Lee uses in
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The Word Must Remain “He’s nothin’ but a nigger-lover!” is one of the many so called inappropriate texts from one of the best-loved stories of all time‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The use of the ‘N’ word should remain in the book because it describes the setting of an important period of time‚ and shows mind set of racist characters. It is simply used for historical recognition and not as an insult. In the story‚ the use of the ‘N’ word is strictly for a historical reference to a period
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To Kill a Mockingbird Reader’s Notes Andrew Malo “’It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not lady-like in the second place‚ folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right‚ they’ve got to want to learn themselves‚ and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language’” –Calpurnia was speaking to Scout (Pg. ) In this passage‚ Lee is using
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There are many themes throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee that did have an influence‚ but there is only one that was a huge part. The theme is racism. Racism is in almost every chapter and was a great part of the trail. This essay will guide you on where and when the theme racism is. In chapters 9 and 16 there was racism that had to do with the trail about Tom Robinson raping Mayella Ewell. This first quote was at the end of chapter 9 and it hinted at Atticus was chosen to be Tom’s
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Themes 1) The Coexistence of Good and Evil Scout and Jem childhood innocence àconfront evil Tom Robinson and Boo Radley not prepared for evil & destroyed. Jem’s faith in justice and in humanity damaged‚ and he retreats into a state of disillusionment. Atticus has experienced evil without losing his faith in the human capacity for goodness. Shows Jem and Scout possible to live with conscience without losing hope or becoming cynical. Admires Mrs. Dubose’s courage even while deploring her racism
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lessons Scout learns is to look at things from other people’s perspectives. He teaches them so many lessons here is an example how he helped Scout. "’First of all‚’ he said‚ ’If you can learn a simple trick‚ Scout‚ you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-’ ’Sir?’ ’-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’"(p30) Scout learned an extremely good lesson from what Atticus said. Scout pays a
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of drama about everything that happens. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird she portrays the idea that the weight of prejudice weighs down on you the more you grow up; this becomes clear to readers the Finches‚ and others are forced to deal with exclusion and hatred from the people of Maycomb. During the progression of To Kill A Mockingbird Jem and Scout don’t only grow physically they also grow mentally. In this scene Scout is forced to take the higher ground and walk away from a fight with
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