The Whole of Chapter Twelve | TKAM

   Chapter twelve had started with Scout complaining that Jem was now difficult to live with and how he would always tell her to leave him alone. Calpurnia now refers Jem to Mister Jem, since he is now getting older. Calpurnia, early in the chapter, explains to Scout how Jem is growing up, and will be doing things that boys do, and Calpurnia also tells Scout that if he ever feels lonely, come to her. That summer Dill had not visited Maycomb, instead he had sent a letter to Scout. Dill had gotten a new father and that he would stay in Meridian, instead of Maycomb. His new father was a lawyer just like Scout's father. At the end of the letter Dill tells Scout how he would "love" her forever and wants to marry her. I find this very weird, since they are both very young, younger than twelve, but are having of marrying each other, and that they have supposedly kissed multiple times. I find this very strange to be able to love someone this early in one's life. That week, Atticus had left Jem and Scout at home, since he was called into an emergency session. Calpurnia was there to look after them. 
   Calpurnia had told the children that she would take them to mass with her. She had made sure that Jem and Scout were very clean before attending the mass. She had bathed Scout very roughly and made her soap all over twice, to make sure she was clean for church. She had made Scout wear a dress to church and Jem a suit. When they had arrived at the church, the two kids had been surprised, because it was there first time being in an all black church. Scout was confused when she had heard Calpurnia talk the way all the other people in the church were talking and she also was puzzled when she had realized the church had no hymn-books. A lot of the people in the church liked the Finch family, because Atticus is standing up for Tom Robinson, who is a black man accused of raping a woman, even though he had not. At the end of church, they all had to put some money in a bin for Tom Robinson's wife and their children, since Tom Robinson's wife is having a hard time finding a job, so there is a possibility that their children will be taken away, since they can't provide the necessities to survive to their children (food, clothing, etc.). I think that it is very nice of them to donate and help her out by giving a little bit of money to her. At the end of the chapter Scout asks Calpurnia, if she can visit her sometimes at her home. Calpurnia tells her of course she can, when they were all close to their home, they had seen Aunt Alexandra waiting on the porch... I wonder why she's there, she might be there to visit. Or she could be there because Atticus is gone for a bit, so he had told her to make sure everything was fine while he was gone, then again Calpurnia is there.