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In chapter twelve, Atticus leaves home to go to trial with a black man. Because someone has to watch Jem and Scout, Atticus has Cal stay at his house until he gets back. Sunday is Church day for Cal, and she decides to take Jem and Scout with her as long as they behaved well and were extremely hygienefied*.
"If Calpurnia had every bathed me roughly before, it was nothing compared to her supervision of that Saturday night's routine." (117)
They arrived at the First Purchase M.E. African Church only to be greeted by Lula, a church goer who was extremely opposed to Jem and Scout's presence.
"You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here..." (119)
Lula was racist, and she thought that just because Jem and Scout were white, they were just like most people in Maycomb (equally or even more racist)
After their row with Lula ended, everyone else present said that they were happy to have them, especially because Atticus is friend of black people.
"Don't pay no 'tention to Lula... we're mighty glad to have you all."
Among the things that Scout learned at church was the fact that the man who Atticus was defending went to that church and was Accused of rape. Zeebo is one of Cal's sons, and Cal herself taught Zeebo to read. Cal learned how to read from Miss Maudie's Aunt when she lived on the Finch landing. She also learned that Cal lived a secret double life, in a way. Cal went to church every Sunday and seemed to communicate with other black people in "[n-word] talk" (25), or English without grammatical correctness.
* According to Aubster's Dictionary, hygienefied is the state of being that one is after being cleaned, usually in a vigorous manner. Other terms for hygienefied may be: cleaned, washed, or in a few words: having taken a shower.
Wow Aubrey! You write a lot! That's good though...
While going to Calpurnia's church that Sunday, Scout learns that her behaviour is quite different from when they are at the Finch's house. At the church, Jem and Scout feel very isolated, since they where whites. That church had different people, different music, and others. But since Calpurnia stood up for Jem and Scout, this made the blacks in that church even more angry. I think that Calpurnia did the right thing to stand up for another race, considering all the racism at that time. She has shown that, no matter what color skin you are, you are still a human being, that lives, breathes, and thinks.
When Scout and Jem go with Calpurnia to her church, Scout sees that Calpurnia talks just like all the rest of the people there (the church was an African American church).
The majority of the people there treated Jem and Scout very respectfully, for example when they made a path for them to pass through the crowd into the church. The only person there that was not respectful was Lula. I agree with Aubrey that Lula was being racist against them and was saying things such as Scout and Jem being exactly like the rest of the people in Maycomb because they were white.
He learns that in the black society, they are not as racist with the whites as with the other way around. This is because the blacks tend to be more civilized in a way. They are not as racist in the first When Calpurnia is talking to them, she uses their accent to fit into the black society. For instance, if you work for the government and you see that they all dress tidy, then you'll do the same thing but not necessarily the same thing at your house. In this black society it's a little different. They accept you for who you are and not what you are.
Scout finds out that Calpurnia uses the same accent as all of the other black people. What I foun peculiar was that the black people insult themselves saying n***** to each other. This surprised me a lot since I always thought that for them it is an insult to be called like that, even amongst them. But as we find out later, Lula is not like the other black people in church. Either she doesn't know what Atticus is doing for Tom, or she doesn't appreciate him doing so. But she starts arguing that the church was build for black people to use and build by black people's funds and that whites have no place in it. This incident, however, is not major but rather small. The other churchgoers seem to be delited to have Jem and Scout in church and they are treated with respect. If Atticus wouldn't be defending Tom Robinson, then Calpurnia would have never taken them to church, at least not to an African-American church. And the other black people wouldn't have accepted them the way they did.
Abrey,
Wow man! you really know how to do a really good interpretation and get deep into these things.
Congratulations id give you an A+!
Calpurnia is a big influence in Scout and Jem's life. as said in the book she is not a typical "black folk" she is very intelligent and is one of the few African Americans that are literate from Maycomb. Cal (That is her nickname) learned to read while she worked in the Finch landing with Miss Maudie's Aunt. The fact that she worked with Miss Maudie's Aunt surprises me because Miss Maudie is fairly old, about the same age as Atticus. Another Thing that surprised me about Cal is that she did not know her age, this is somewhat depressing because not knowing your age means that you do not get to have a birthday (unless you make one up, but that is just not the same).
enough about cal, now what did scout learn from Cal? Scout learned many, many things from Calpurnia like: learning to read, to be more "ladylike", etc. One of the main scenes from chapter 12 to chapter 14 is when cal takes Jem and Scout to the First Purchase M.E. African Church. At church Scout, Jem, and Cal confront a black folk by the name of Lula. Lula asks why she brought "white chillun"(119) Cal just told here off and later her and the kids were greeted with respect into the church.
The Church folk were happy to have Scout and Jem because their father, Atticus, was a friend and defender of the black townsfolk in Maycomb. Scout later found out that the man who Atticus defended, Tom Robin, Attended the First Purchase M.E. African Church with Cal and the other black folk. She also learned that Cal taught her son Zeebo to read and that she was one of the three Black folk that were literate in Maycomb County.
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