Calpurnia lives in two worlds, a white world and a black world. She is well aware that she is expected to behave and present a certain way when she is among each group and those behaviors and speech are very different.
Calpurnia is a unique individual but very much like many women of her day. She has spent her life taking care of white people and their children and homes. Yet, it is clear that she respects Atticus and feels fortunate to be able to work for someone who respects her color and does not degrade the black people.
When she takes the children to the church it ais an awakening for them because they have the opportunity to learn tha dialects are cultural and in the south, at the time, race related. In many ways Calpurnia demonstrates her high level of intelligence by showing and explaining to the children the difference between the ways one must present ones self.
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