To Kill a Mocking Bird - Calpurnia

Question: Choose a character out of the novel; describe the character’s personality and placement in the novel. Answer the following questions: - How does this character relate to the Finch family? - How does the Finch family feel about this character? - Why do they respond to the character like this? Calpurnia Calpurnia is the black maid to the Finch’s in Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill A Mockingbird.” She is treated by …

…perfect black character to have as she relates well to the Finch’s and they relate well to her. She shares a bond with the Finch’s which is deeper than race, skin colour, community views and, in some cases, flesh and blood. Calpurnia shows the reader that back then, not all white people were racist towards the blacks and not all blacks were as uneducated and as inhumane as people of that era thought.