This is a pretty impressive feat that she can read and write at a time where blacks and women were underprivileged and the book actually says that she taught herself how to. Calpurnia also taught Scout how to write, “Calpurnia was to blame for this. It kept me from driving her crazy on rainy days, I guess. She would set me a writing task by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top of a tablet, then copying out a chapter of the Bible beneath,”(pg 19 pdf version). Calpurnia was one of the few people in her black church that also knew how to read and ended teaching her son Zeebo how to. “‘Maybe because they can’t read. Cal, did you teach Zeebo?’ ‘Yeah, Mister Jem. There wasn’t a school even when he was a boy. I made him learn, though,’”(pg 126 pdf version). What you can tell from this quote is that Calpurnia expected much more from Scout and Zeebo and might have realized that the society they lived in would never give them and chance to learn or use the skills of reading or
This is a pretty impressive feat that she can read and write at a time where blacks and women were underprivileged and the book actually says that she taught herself how to. Calpurnia also taught Scout how to write, “Calpurnia was to blame for this. It kept me from driving her crazy on rainy days, I guess. She would set me a writing task by scrawling the alphabet firmly across the top of a tablet, then copying out a chapter of the Bible beneath,”(pg 19 pdf version). Calpurnia was one of the few people in her black church that also knew how to read and ended teaching her son Zeebo how to. “‘Maybe because they can’t read. Cal, did you teach Zeebo?’ ‘Yeah, Mister Jem. There wasn’t a school even when he was a boy. I made him learn, though,’”(pg 126 pdf version). What you can tell from this quote is that Calpurnia expected much more from Scout and Zeebo and might have realized that the society they lived in would never give them and chance to learn or use the skills of reading or