How Does Calpurnia Cause Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

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When people are discriminative it not only looks poorly on them, but it’s a negative way of living, and for the people they talk bad on it’s unfair. Yes, we have freedom of speech and other privileges but that doesn’t mean you have the right to call out someone. For people who get discriminated against, you shouldn’t let this impact your life, brush it off and ignore them. They can not categorize you on race, color, height, eye color, shoe size, social class, or anything in general seeing that we were all made differently for a reason. Even more of a cause to be glad of others differences, you wouldn't want everyone to be the same would you? In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee discrimination is shown in different
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She filled in the “mom” position when Jem and Scouts mother passed. Although Calpurnia was a good person she was always talked about for being black and “trying to fit the mother figure” in which Atticus defend her. "Calpurnia bent down and kissed me. I ran along, wondering what had come over her. She had wanted to make up with me, that was it. She had always been too hard on me, she had at last seen the error of her fractious ways, she was sorry and too stubborn to say so"(Lee 75). "Alexandra, Calpurnia's not leaving this house ... until she wants to. You may think otherwise, but I couldn't have got along without her all these years. She's a faithful member of this family and you'll simply have to accept things the way they are" (Lee 28). This mirrors people who aren’t small minded and are open to any type of change. For example, some people with stepparents do not get along or have resentment towards them because they are not the birth parent or are different than them. Differences make the world and its people diverse, you shouldn’t talk bad upon who they are. Whether they’re dissimilar because gender, color, or class they influence part of who you are and how you

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