To Kill a Mockingbird
5 lines of characterization for Calphurnia (page number please)
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"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." (Chapter 3)
"Hush your mouth! Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and mighty!" (Ch 3)
"She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember." (Ch1) * Scout grows to love Calpurnia later in the story.
"Calpurnia bent down and kissed me. I ran along, wondering what had come over her. She had wanted to make up with me, that was it. She had always been too hard on me, she had at last seen the error of her fractious ways, she was sorry and too stubborn to say so." (Ch 3 )
"That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me. The idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her having command of two languages."(ch 12)