Calpurnia
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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Calpurnia's symbol is a fork. Her symbol is a fork because she teaches the children manners and acts like a mother to but is still hard on them like the tip of a fork. "She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn’t behave"LeePage6 ~Scout
"She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember."LeePage7 ~Scout "That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?”LeePage32 ~Calpurnia
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Calpurnia is maternal(motherly) towards the Finch children. "She had been with us ever since Jem was born" Lee6 ~Scout "That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?”Lee33 ~Calpurnia "Our mother died when I was two"Lee6 ~Scout
This shows that Calpurnia has been taking care of them for a while and she teaches the morals and manners.
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Calpurnia is well educated. "She would set me a writing task"Lee24 ~Scout "Calpurnia had more education than most colored folks."Lee32 ~Scout
Calpurnia was still educated even though most people in her community weren't.
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The color turquoise represents Calpurnia in TKAM because turquoise can mean sophistication and Calpurnia teaches Scout manners. "That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?”Lee33 ~Calpurnia
This is when Calpurnia teaches Scout that you should be polite to your guests and that it is ok if they are different.
Calpurnia ties into the coming of age storyline of To Kill a Mockingbird. She is tied in by teaching the Finch kids, mainly Scout, life lessons. One example is the lesson about company. “Suppose you and Scout talked colored- folks’ talk at home— it’d be out of place, wouldn’t it? Now what if I talked white- folks’ talk at church, and with my neighbors? They’d think I was puttin’ on airs to beat Moses.” Lee167 ~Calpurnia
Here, she teaches Scout about how some cultures have a certain way of talking and that you should talk like your own culture if you are with them to be socially accepted. Also, by being with the Finch kids for so long, it positively affects their view on colored people.
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My name is Calpurnia
I serve the Finch family
We live in Maycomb, Albama
Towards the children I act motherly
The children lack a mother
I teach them principles and values
Yet I am stringent and disciplined to them
My name is Calpurnia.
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Citations
"Color Symbolism and Culture." Symbolism of Color: Using Color for Meaning. Ezoic, n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2014.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960. Print
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1960. Print
