Calpurnia Character Analysis

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 suffer figure. We get a very clear picture of Calpurnia in Chapter One. She was whole angles and bones. This suggests the snow- lividthornbe she doesnt have much money to buy sustenance 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 matte up her tyrannical presence for as long as I could remember. She doesnt take any nonsense from the fact that Our battles were epic and one-sided. That Calpurnia had been with the Finches since Jems get suggests that she is part of the family. Atticus trusts her to take care of the children when he is gone.But thither came a day when Atticus told us hed brave out us out if we made any noise in the gibibyte and commissioned Calpurnia to serve in his absence if she visualised a live on out of us. He trusts her to discipline the children Her hand was as wide as bed slat and twice as hard. When Scout questions Walters consume habits at the table in Chapter Three, Calpurnia is the one to discipline her. She says That boys yo compny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear? Atticus trusts her to take care of the children properly. Calpurnia is like a surrogate dumbfound to the children. For example, when Scout refuses to gargle after chewing the Double-Mint gum, Jem threatens her with you dont n Ill tell Calpurnia on you As gruff as may come off, she really does love the children.When Scout starts going to school, Calpurnia softens up. I mazed you today. She sets the boundaries for the children. Our summertime boundaries (within calling distance of Calpurnia) were Mrs. Henry Lafayette Duboses house and the Radley push through three doors to the south. Calpurnia really treats the children as if they were her own. Calpurnia is more(prenominal) educated than most Afr ican-American pack in Maycomb. She taught Scout to write. She would set me a writing line of work by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top a tablet, indeed copying out a chapter of Bible beneath. If Scout copied it up to her standards, she was rewarded. That she did this shows she knew more than most black people would know in Maycomb and it is yet other example of her mothering Scout. Calpurnia speaks as well as any other white person in Maycomb, except when she is mad. As shown when she disciplines Scout for the dinner calamity with Walter. She was furious, and when she was furious Calpurnias grammar became erratic. When in tranquility, her grammar was as good as anybodys in Maycomb.Atticus said Calpurnia had more education than colored family line Calpurnia tries to show Scout and Jem that there is no difference between white and African-American people. For Calpurnia rarely commented on the ways of white people. Calpurnia speaks like any other person in Maycomb to show the children she is equal to the white people in town. She has manners that are as good as anyone else in town. When Scout questions Walters eating habits, Calpurnia shows good manners in congress Scout to allow Walter carry on and be polite.