In chapter 12 we start to see that Jem has just turned 12 and is acting more mature; what he liked to do are not the same, and isolates from his sister. He feels like everything Scout does it to pester him, and before he thought that she acting less like a girl was good, but now he wants her to act more like a girl. Scout feels lonely because Jem is in bad mood. Atticus had to travel every day for two weeks because the state legislature to he was a member called him for session. Scout was solitary and decided to join Calpurina on Sunday to go to a colored church. The church was called the First Purchase because it was bought with the first earning of the freed slaves. When Scout and Calpurnia got there, they met with Lula who demands them to be out of their church because Scout was a white person, and she also said that they had their own church to go to. Calpurnia was about to leave the church when Reverend Sykes welcome them in an hospitality manner.Reverend Sykes knew about Scout's father helping Tom Robinson, a member of their church. The church was penniless for now because they were not able to buy hymnal, and also because most of the people did not know how to read. Therefore they sung by echoing the words that Zeebo, Calpurnia’s eldest son and the town garbage collector, read from their only hymnal. Reverend Sykes collects money for Tom Robinson's wife, Helen, who was unemployed and had hard times trying to find work now that her husband was accused of raping a white woman. This is when Scout really understands what Tom Robinson is accused by Bob Ewell. Scout was ecstatic because she met Calpurnia outside of work, and her daily routine which was different to hers. When Calpurnia and Scout got home, aunt Alexandra was waiting at the house.
We can analyse that Calpurnia lives two worlds differently, when she is with her community of colored people and when she is at work. Calpurnia knows how to read, talks in a different accent when is at the church and talks proper English when she is at work. In the church scene we can see that the colored people are also racist, or scared to have a white person with them because they are so hypnotized that all white people are the same. I believe that this was the first chapter that let us see the life or the colored people, we can see that they work together to help others and are very united.
We can analyse that Calpurnia lives two worlds differently, when she is with her community of colored people and when she is at work. Calpurnia knows how to read, talks in a different accent when is at the church and talks proper English when she is at work. In the church scene we can see that the colored people are also racist, or scared to have a white person with them because they are so hypnotized that all white people are the same. I believe that this was the first chapter that let us see the life or the colored people, we can see that they work together to help others and are very united.
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