How the Finch family in To Kill a Mocking Bird related to Calpurnia

Calpurnia

Calpurnia is the black maid to the Finch’s in Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill A Mockingbird.” She is treated by the Finch’s as if she were a Finch as they see her as a member of their family. She is a friendly person whom is helpful and caring to the entire Finch family. Calpurnia is seen by the reader as almost being a white person, even though her skin is black and she comes from a black family and background.

Calpurnia has spent “all her days working for the Finch’s” and she does her work in a happy yet serious way. She is happy to care for and teach the Finch’s as she feels they too care and teach her. It appears to the reader that Calpurnia almost lives a double life; a white family member whilst working and a black woman at her home. She is seen by the reader to be clever and well educated, a thing that most black people of that time were not. Calpurnia is also seen to be quite strict and firm with the children, even though she is in actual fact bein...