Calpurnia's Double Life

   Calpurnia is an interesting character as previously before this chapter we did not know much about her. Be a black lady in an extremely racist city is difficult enough though bringing white children to a black church seemed to difficult for Lula to open her eyes to how much those children's family were helping one of the men of the church. This chapter started with Scout reflecting on Jem getting older and a few weeks after he Mrs. Dubose died he changed and started showing little to no interest in Scout. He even started acting much meaner to her saying she should grow up and act like a lady which was a sensitive topic for Scout being a Tomboy and always being told that. It made her run crying to Calpurnia who she tried to convince to beat up Jem since she was to small to do it, or at least convince Atticus too. From reading this you can take a safe assumption and say that Atticus is going through a stereotypical phase in children where they start acting more distant from their parents and more independent, and most usually lash out or rebel against those around them with an attitude which Scout seems to be getting from Jem.

When you are wrong about someone, but will not admit it.

   Though Scout and Jem learn a lot from how the church differed from theirs. For one thing only four people in that church could read including Calpurnia and that she learned from Miss Maudie's aunt and that she is also a few years older than Atticus. Though one question that brought some attention to me when reading was why she talked differently when she was with them and when she was at church. She explained it was because she did not want others to be annoyed if she flexed her intelligence in front of them. Though it made me question if she should really be doing this. She could help them and educate them at least a little more. Though most of them do not want to read though I think if any wanted to learn it would be great to teach them as that way if most black people in Maycomb were more educated it could slowly change the racist people of Maycomb's mind which is almost everyone in their town. Though it would be difficult to motivate them though if only they realized the power of education how much they could set themselves further in the future with more people I am sure would realize that they are not that bad and should not be treated as badly as they are.