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Calpurnia
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- 1Calpurnia"She was all angles and bones; she was near-sighted; she squinted; her hand was as wide as a bed slat and twice as hard."
- Scout Finch - 2Calpurnia"She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn't ready to come."
- Scout Finch - 3Calpurnia"Our battles were epic and one-sided. Calpurnia always won, mainly because Atticus always took he side. She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember."
- Scout Finch - 4Calpurnia"There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't. That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table-cloth you let him, you hear?"
- Calpurnia - 5Calpurnia"She likes Jem better'n she likes me, anyway," I concluded, and suggested that Atticus lose no time in packing her off. "Have you ever considered that Jem doesn't worry her half as much?" Atticus's voice was flinty. "I've no intention of getting rid of her, now or ever."
- Atticus Finch - 6Calpurnia"We couldn't operate a single day without Cal, have you ever thought of that? You think about how much Cal does for you, and you mind her, you hear?"
- Atticus Finch - 7Calpurnia"...by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl."
- Scout Finch - 8Black Community"It was an ancient paint-peeled frame building, the only church in Maycomb with a steeple and a bell, called First Purchase because it was paid for from the first earnings of freed slaves."
- Scout Finch - 9Black Community"Negros worshipped in it on Sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays."
- Scout Finch - 10Black Community"It was a happy cemetery."
- Scout Finch - 11Black Community"The warm bittersweet smell of clean Negro welcomed us as we entered the churchyard-"
- Scout Finch - 12Black Community"When they saw Jem and me with Calpurnia, the men stepped back and took off their hats; the women crossed their arms at their waists, weekday gestures of respectful attention. They parted and made a small pathway to the church door for us."
- Scout Finch - 13Black Community"You ain't got no business brinin' white chillun here- they got their church, we got our'n. It is our church, ain't it Miss Cal?"
- Lula - 14Black Community..."where are the hymn-books?" "We don't have any,"
- Calpurnia - 15Black Community"How're we gonna sing it if there ain't no hymn-books?"
- Scout Finch - 16Black Community"Slowly, painfully, the ten dollars were collected."
- Scout Finch - 17Calpurnia"Alexandra, Calpurnia's not leaving this house until she wants to. You may think otherwise, but I couldn't have got along without her all these years. She's a faithful member of the family and you'll simply have to accept things the way they are...We still need Cal as much as we ever did."
- Atticus - 18Calpurnia"Besides, I don't think the children have suffered one bit from her having brought them up. If anything, she's been harder on them in some ways than a mother would have been... she never let them get away with anything, she's never indulged them the way most coloured nurses do. She tried to bring them up according to her lights, and Cal's lights are pretty good - and another thing, the children love her."
- Atticus
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- English Literature Flashcards on Calpurnia, created by Carla Hewitt on 08/05/2015.
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