Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird

In 1930s Maycomb, a small town in Alabama, Calpurnia is the black nanny, cook and mother figure to the prosperous blanched Finch family. In some prise we know very inadequate about her, not regular(a) her surname, but this socially indifferent servant plays a spanking role in the sweet as Harper lee side uses her to embody and illustrate some(prenominal) of the themes running through her defend: racism, inequality, injustice, class, the importance of family, education and courage. through and through Calpurnia we under be nurture what life in the South was the resemblings of in those segregated times. She provides the voice of holiness and humanity in a world with very comminuted of either.\nMaycomb is a tired octogenarian town with nowhere to go and nothing to buy in the eyes of the eight family old narrator, Scout. At the get off of the novel she does not cod the deep inequalities and blemishs that divide it. Her start taste of racism baffles at Calpurnias all- black First procure Church when Lula, a parishioner, objects to the heraldic bearing of pureness children saying they acquire their own church. Calpurnias solution is the essence of pure morality: Its the same God, personalt it? Here we apply a Black woman, the seat of the social ladder, defending children who come from the White community that has inflicted so much injustice on Calpurnias people. Harper lee side is making a healthy point that racism and prejudice are morally baseless no matter whether it is right by Blacks or Whites and that Calpurnias personal morality leave alone not allow her to stand by while her compny is insulted. closely Whites in Alabama in the 1930s would not have behaved with the grace exhibited by this servant woman.\nIn Maycomb, the class hierarchies were rigid. White families like the Finches were at the illuminate of the ladder while Blacks like Calpurnia were at the bottom automatically, all the same below white scum like the Ewells and Cunninghams. Calpurnia is poor and like Walter Cunningham cannot afford to eat syrup ever...