Two main motherly figures appear in this story, Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra. Calpurnia nicknamed Cal, is a Black housekeeper who has taken these children under her wing as her own. Cal is extremely gentle and caring towards the children but, when they do something wrong she does not let it slid. She is raising the children up to her values which are superior to anyone else in Atticus’s mind. She is around in a time of crisis and need. The other motherly figure is Aunt Alexandria almost forces herself into her brothers home to show the children she can be as good as a mother as Cal when in all reality she is not even close. Instead of helping the children as Cal does she completely ignores then unless they get in her way or irritates her.
