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See Spot run. Nope, she brought out the big guns : the Bible and a book Miss Buford used to teach her—Blackstone's Commentaries , a gift from the Finch kids' grandfather. Jem's blow away that she learned and taught English out of such a difficult book as the Commentaries. That must be why she doesn't talk like the other African-Americans he knows. Scout is blown away to think that Calpurnia has a whole other life besides being their cook, much like a child realizing that teachers don't sleep at school.

One last question. Why does Cal talk differently at the African-American church than she does with white people? She says that it makes more sense to fit in. Okay, this is actually the last question: can Scout visit Calpurnia at her home some time? And then they arrive home to find Aunt Alexandra installed on their front porch. Walter Cunningham Jr. Tired of ads? Join today and never see them again.

She has been mentioned as having many children, one of them Mr. Zeebo, her eldest son. She grew up with Atticus, as she is only a few years his senior. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. What is Scribd? Tkam Zeebo. Uploaded by joyagres. Did you find this document useful? Is this content inappropriate? Report this Document.

Flag for inappropriate content. Likewise, the humorously sexual connotations of Mrs. Merriweather's breathless repetition of the missionary J. Grimes Everett's name - "Mrs. Merriweather played her voice like an organ" — and her frenzied assertion, "no conception, no con cep tion," appeal over Scout's head to the reader As such, it is possible that there are other moments in the text in which Scout's naivety about sexual matters suggests that there is more to be drawn from her depiction of relationships and events than has hitherto been noted.

One such moment might be Atticus's assertion that Calpurnia is a "faithful member" of the Finch family. Atticus, in his apparent purity, seems to be something of a sexual cold-fish. Indeed, Diann Baecker extends frequent parallels between Atticus and Jesus, writing that the former, "is almost Christ-like in his devotion to what is good and true and in his virginal asexuality;" further suggesting that he "has been widowed for a number of years, but never even dates another woman.

Underpinning the assumption of Atticus's sexual chasteness are, however, two further assumptions: first, that prior to his marriage Atticus was a forty-something year-old virgin, and second, that he gave up sex after becoming a widower seven years later. This, despite his courtroom admission that "there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire" Any suggestion that Atticus took advantage of sexual opportunities in Montgomery while a state legislator would seem to be belied by the newspaper cartoon.

There are, nevertheless, reasons, historical and textual, to suggest that Atticus may have satiated his sexual desires much closer to home. Atticus grew up on Finch's Landing, a cotton plantation founded by his ancestor Simon Finch who traveled from England for Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, and finally to Alabama where he bought three slaves and established his homestead. At the Landing, the potential sexual activity of Simon's white daughters was strictly policed.

The "daughters' rooms could be reached only by one staircase That Atticus is said to be related to "nearly every family in town" without reference to race suggests the scope of Simon Finch's sexual activity.

The diaries of Thomas Thistlewood, a British citizen who chronicled his time on sugar plantations in eighteenth-century Jamaica, suggest the sexual habits that the Finch patriarch may have picked up there. Living openly with slave or free mulatto concubines brought no social condemnation. White men were expected to have sex with black women, whether black women wanted sex or not. In the novel's historical context, then, any assumption of sexual chasteness on Atticus's part requires a belief that in a location approximately twenty-miles from the nearest town, a homeschooled, apparently heterosexual young man living on a plantation with a history of miscegenation, would not engage in the sexual pursuits that other men and boys pursued in similar situations.

In the novel's first open acknowledgement of miscegenation, Jem observes of Raymond, "He's got a colored woman and all sorts of mixed chillun'" In response to the observation that Raymond "doesn't look like trash," Jem says, "He's not, he owns all one side of the riverbank down there, and he's from a real old family to boot" Ibid.

Raymond was supposed to marry "one of the Spender ladies," but following the wedding rehearsal, the would-be bride went upstairs "and blew her head off. She pulled the trigger with her toes. Despite Jem's use of the possessive — "He's got a colored woman" — critics have frequently romanticized or legalized Raymond's relationship.

Claudia Durst Johnson describes Raymond as, "a white man who embraces the Other in taking a black wife and fathering her children. Jochem Riesthuis identifies "the romantic figure of Mr. Dolphus Raymond" whose "narrative is in itself symbolic of the harshness of life in a small southern town, where condemnation and interference are never far away. Raymond has such long-lasting loving feelings for her, how much freedom does she ever feel to reject him? This information is offered only in passing when Reverend Sykes tells Jem how Tom hurt his arm: "He got it caught in a cotton gin, caught it in Mr.

Dolphus Raymond's cotton gin when he was a boy" As such, the reader might be forgiven for missing it. But Riesthuis's point about meaningful consent is significant: it raises questions about the apparent passivity of Calpurnia and other black characters, and about the centrality of sexual exploitation, not only to these texts, but also to the activism it spawned in the world beyond it. It further suggests a hitherto unnoticed pairing of characters, or what Evans calls "unlikely duo[s]," in the text.

In a novel in which even the rabid dog shot by Atticus has a surname, it is curious that Calpurnia's is not revealed, not in Mockingbird nor in Watchman ; not least because family names are so important in Maycomb. It is a significant "unsaid" of the novel. Nevertheless, the historical context of the novel suggests that Calpurnia is, most likely, a Finch: a literal member of the family. Returning from Calpurnia's church, the children discover that she grew up at Finch's Landing.

I've spent all my days workin' for the Finches or the Bufords, an' I moved to Maycomb when your daddy and your mamma married" As she is a little older than Atticus, who was born around the late s or early s, it is likely that Calpurnia's mother, at least, was owned by the Finches.

Certainly, Calpurnia's observation that she does not "have a real birthday," and just has "it on Christmas, it's easier to remember that way," suggests that her mother, if not technically a slave at the time of Calpurnia's birth, was living in bondage As Frederick Douglass observed, "I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. It is, of course, possible that Calpurnia was a Buford, not least because Miss Buford, Maudie Atkinson's aunt, taught Calpurnia to read.

Nevertheless, Atticus's father took a special interest in Calpurnia, providing her a copy of Blackstone's Commentaries from which she taught Zeebo to read. Were Calpurnia a Buford, moreover, there would have been no need to suppress her surname in the text: few readers would remember that Miss Maudie was a Buford, nor would there be much reason to mention it.

This omission may suggest the existence of another hitherto overlooked textual possibility that might serve, like the mystery of Boo Radley, as a structuring absence in the novel.

Of all the novel's critics, only Jennifer Murray seems to get close to identifying it. Noting that there is no mention of a partner or a father to Calpurnia's children, she asks, "Would it give too much implicit sexual substance to Calpurnia? Would it create an implicit triangle with Atticus? There are, however, at least two occasions in Mockingbird when this possibility is strongly suggested.

The first occurs when Calpurnia, Jem, and Scout are accosted by Lula at the church. Making clear her displeasure at the children's presence, Lula asks, contemptuously, why the children are there. The remark causes a murmur to run through the crowd, and while Calpurnia is said to be indignant, she never responds.

If Lee achieved her goal of being the "Jane Austen of south Alabama," this may be her "silence of the Bertrams" moment. She tells Atticus, "You've got a daughter to think of. A daughter who's growing up" Given that she has a black chauffeur, Alexandra's objections would not appear to be towards African American servants in general, but rather towards Calpurnia in particular.

It is, moreover, hard to imagine that Aunt Alexandra, she of tight corsets and afternoon teas, would be willing to do the work of a black maid. Indeed, because having a maid was, in this period, an important status symbol, being without one would have been as socially uncomfortable for Aunt Alexandra as it was physically demanding.

Thus, it might be argued, Mockingbird 's Calpurnia was to be replaced rather than simply dismissed.