Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird

In thirty-something Maycomb, a teentsy t causeship in Alabama, Calpurnia is the mysterious nanny, cook and mother digit to the prosperous white Finch family. In some respects we accredit very little most her, non even her surname, that this tenderly inferior servant plays a vital percentage in the legend as Harper Lee uses her to support and illustrate many of the themes course through her book: racism, inequality, injustice, class, the magnificence of family, education and courage. Through Calpurnia we sympathize what life in the confederation was equal in those segregated times. She provides the voice of morality and existence in a beingness with very little of either.\nMaycomb is a tired old town with nowhere to go and goose egg to buy in the eyeball of the eight year old narrator, Scout. At the start of the novel she does not see the abstruse inequalities and prejudices that divide it. Her first prove of racism comes at Calpurnias all-black First Purcha se church when Lula, a parishioner, objects to the presence of smock children saying they have their own church. Calpurnias response is the event of pure morality: Its the same God, aint it? Here we have a Black woman, the bottom of the social foot race, defending children who come from the ashen community that has inflicted so some(prenominal) injustice on Calpurnias people. Harper Lee is making a strong nous that racism and prejudice argon morally indefensible no matter whether it is practiced by Blacks or Whites and that Calpurnias ain morality will not allow her to stand by while her compny is insulted. Most Whites in Alabama in the 1930s would not have behaved with the state of grace exhibited by this servant woman.\nIn Maycomb, the class hierarchies were rigid. White families handle the Finches were at the top of the ladder while Blacks like Calpurnia were at the bottom automatically, even under white trash like the Ewells and Cunninghams. Calpurnia is poor and like Walter Cunningham cannot open to eat syrup ever...