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Chapter 12

Jem and Scouts visit to the first purchase church was in total contrast to what they are used to in their normal visits to church. Scout is surprised to see no hymn books or decorations in the church, which is what she is used to.
Scout learns that the black community is worse of than her and live their lives in poverty. She was particularly surprised to learn that many black people could not read. Especially as she has been reading since she was born.
Scout learns that Calpurnia taught Zeebo to read using the Blackstone’s commentaries book. And that Zeebo didn’t ever have any proper education.
Calpuria tends to speak differently when she is around other coloured folks rather than how she speaks when she is talking around the finches or other white people. She does this because if the coloured folks think she is behaving above them they tend to cast her aside from the rest of the group and she doesn’t want to hurt any body’s feelings.
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