Calpurnia Mother Figure Essay

Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra can both bee seen as mother figures in Scout’s life. Calpurnia is a good mother figure. Calpurnia is a very careing person. When the mad dog was running wild she flet the need to inform everyone. She made sure everyone got called about the news and she even when over to the Radley house to make sure they knew. When Jem started to change Scout came crying to her and she comforted Scout. Calpurnia told Scout that whenever Jem was being mean to her, she could come into the kitchen and talk with Calpurnia all she wanted. Calpurnia is also hard on Jem and Scout. When Jem destroyed Miss Dubose’s garden she somehow knew, it was like she has a sixth sense. When Atticus was talking about Calpurnia he said that Calpurnia is hard on the …show more content…
Which is why Aunt Alexandra is not a good mother figure. Aunt Alexandra does not get along with Aticus, Jem, and especially Scout. Alexandra told Scout that she can not visit Calpurnia which brought Scout to get mad at her. After that conversation with Scout Atticus and her started to argue about Calpurnia. Alexandra believes that they do not need Calpurnia, but Atticus thinks differently. “Aunt Alexandra fitted into the world of Maycomb like a hand into a glove, but never into the world of Jem and me. I so often wondered how she and could be Atticus’s and Uncle Jack’s sister that i revived half-remembered tales of changelings and mandrake roots that Jem had spun long ago.” (Lee 149) Scout does not think that Aunt Alexandra belongs with them, and one of the reasons is that she is judgemental. If a girl laughed in the church choir Alexandra wouldstart talking about how every family has it’s streaks. It could be a funny streak, a gambling streak, a drinking streak, or a mean streak you name it. Scouts streak just so happens to be the messy streak. Aunt Alexandra thinks that Scout should be more lady like. She thinks she should wear dresses and not play in the