Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird

In thirties Maycomb, a sensitive t suffersfolk in Alabama, Calpurnia is the dull nanny, cook and mother trope to the prosperous white Finch family. In some respects we have sex very little virtually her, non even her surname, exactly this tenderly inferior handmaid plays a vital berth in the young as Harper Lee uses her to constitute and illustrate many of the themes racetrack through her book: racism, inequality, injustice, class, the importance of family, education and courage. Through Calpurnia we study what life in the southbound was analogous in those segregate times. She provides the voice of morality and human being in a founding with very little of either.\nMaycomb is a tired aged(prenominal) town with nowhere to go and nought to buy in the eye of the eight year old narrator, Scout. At the start of the novel she does not see the recondite inequalities and prejudices that divide it. Her first smell of racism comes at Calpurnias all-black First Purchase perform when Lula, a parishioner, objects to the presence of whitened children saying they have their own church. Calpurnias response is the shopping mall of pure morality: Its the same God, aint it? Here we have a Black woman, the bottom of the social outpouring, defending children who come from the washrag community that has inflicted so untold injustice on Calpurnias people. Harper Lee is qualification a strong picture that racism and prejudice argon morally indefensible no matter whether it is practiced by Blacks or Whites and that Calpurnias in the flesh(predicate) morality will not allow her to stand by while her compny is insulted. Most Whites in Alabama in the 1930s would not have behaved with the fancify exhibited by this servant woman.\nIn Maycomb, the class hierarchies were rigid. White families akin the Finches were at the top of the ladder while Blacks like Calpurnia were at the bottom automatically, even downstairs white trash like the Ewells and Cunningha ms. Calpurnia is poor and like Walter Cunningham cannot concede to eat syrup ever...