Tuesday, July 15, 2014

In To Kill A Mocking Bird Why has Calpurnia’s tyranny, unfairness and meddling faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval according to Scout?

I think the main reason for this is that actually, all the "meddling" and "unfair" etc. things Scout says Calpurnia has done are not half as bad as she makes them out to be. It is clear that Calpurnia loves Scout very much, and although she is sometimes strict, she is never in anyway unkind or unjust in her treatment of Scout, which tells us that Scout is exaggerating her meanness, as all children do about their figures of authority. A good example of this is when Scout calls Cal's presence "tyranical" because "she calls me when i'm not ready to come in". Although this is sound justification for a child, Scout probably would have missed her super had she not been called by Cal. However, as the book progresses and the children mature in attitude, Scout (albeit begrudgingly) realises that Calpurnia does mean well, as she sees how petty the apparantly mean things Cal does compared to the great prejudice of the other people around her, and as a result, stops exaggerating her strictness and dissproves generally, as although she won't admit it to the reader or anyone else, she has very little or no reason to think badly of her. 

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