To Kill A Mockingbird Calpurnia Quotes

To Kill a Calpurnia Throughout the story of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee does a phenomenal job of creating plenty of influential characters that affected the lives of the main protagonists, Jem and Scout. Although there were many major characters, such as Atticus and Boo Radley, the more minor characters also played a vital role in the story. Calpurnia, the housekeeper, is a crucial character that affected the entirety of the story. She taught Scout how to write, she showed Jem and Scout another side of society, and she was the motherly figure that the Finch family lacked. The whole course of the story would be altered if not for Calpurnia’s influence. Resulting from the premature unfortunate demise of Scout and Jem’s mother, Atticus alone was left to care for his children. However, Calpurnia’s womanly presence eventually started to fill the void of the children’s missing mother as she started taking some of the responsibilities a mother would have. Calpurnia’s role in the family of doing daily essential tasks escalated to the point where the Finch’s “couldn’t operate a single day without Cal,”(Ch. 3). Atticus is always busy or away for work, this absence of both parents allowed for Jem and Scout to forge a unique bond with Calpurnia. This is in turn allowed her to give them advice that would not give the same impact as if told by …show more content…
One of these characters, Calpurnia, is a major influence in the story and her lasting effects on Scout and Jem prompt them to think about their plights in entirely different ways than usual. Calpurnia’s motherly position, her different dialects, and her teachings of penmanship ultimately helped bear the fruits of the story in different forms. Being the important minor character she is, Calpurnia was vital in the story and without her the story would have ultimately changed mostly if not