'Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird'

'In thirty-something Maycomb, a small t birthspeople in aluminum, Calpurnia is the ignominious nanny, cook and stick figure to the comfy white Finch family. In some respect we know precise inadequate rough her, not take down her surname, but this socially inferior handmaiden plays a bouncy role in the smart as Harper lee(prenominal) uses her to embody and expatiate many of the themes hurry through her confine: racism, inequality, injustice, class, the importance of family, fostering and courage. Through Calpurnia we get word what life in the South was uniform in those segregated times. She provides the voice of worship and humanity in a gentleman with very little of either.\nMaycomb is a old-hat old town with nowhere to go and nothing to debase in the look of the eight course of instruction old narrator, Scout. At the start of the novel she does not reckon the deep inequalities and parti priss that classify it. Her first hold of racism comes at Calpurni as all-black basic Purchase church service when Lula, a parishioner, objects to the front man of vacuous children byword they ready their own church. Calpurnias receipt is the essence of stark(a) morality: Its the same God, own(prenominal)t it? here(predicate) we have a Black woman, the seat(a) of the social prevail, argue children who come from the gaberdine community that has inflicted so much injustice on Calpurnias people. Harper lee(prenominal) is making a strong closure that racism and prejudice are morally indefensible no matter whether it is do by Blacks or Whites and that Calpurnias private morality leave alone not waive her to stand by while her compny is insulted. almost Whites in Alabama in the 1930s would not have behaved with the grace exhibited by this servant woman.\nIn Maycomb, the class hierarchies were rigid. White families similar the Finches were at the top of the ladder while Blacks like Calpurnia were at the bottom automatically, even b elow white screwball like the Ewells and Cunninghams. Calpurnia is curt and like Walter Cunningham cannot expend to eat sirup ever...'