Calpurnia’s identity is shown as quite unknown and lost in Chapter 12 in To Kill A Mockingbird.
‘That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me.’
This shows that Calpurnia was living a double life which she didn’t feel belonged to more. By living with the Finches, she was disrespected by the white community and all she was known as, was the Finches’ maid. She was also quite separated by the black community as she spent so much time with the Finches that she did not even speak to her son, Zeebo. This suggests and she is not really accepted in both ‘societies’ and is stuck between the two.
April 16, 2015 at 8:00 am
Sky,
This starts well but does seem quite generalised and rushed towards the end.
Target
Try to work in at least two more quotations from this chapter that would strengthen your interpretation of Calpurnia’s character.
Why not compare Calpurnia in church to when we first meet her in the novel? How have Scout’s views on her changed? Why is this?