Chapters 1-3
Perspective of Calpurnia

My name is Calpurnia. I am from Alabama. My family comes from a long line of farmers but I wanted a steady job. Farming its unpredictable; Good years, bad years the amount you earn fluctuates. I wanted a steady job. So I got hired as a cook.

It was during the great depression when I get hired as a cook for the finches. The finches have an “absent” mother so I take the position of their mother also. In-between yelling and cooking I find time to teach Jean (scout) to read, I am happy to have a job working for the finches when jobs are far and few between. Atticus has little time to spend with his children so I look out for them a lot. I love the children and look after them as my own but they get on my nerves regularly. There loud, want to know about everything and so I make them go play outside, always within calling distance of course. Cousin dill visited this summer and the children spent a lot of time with him. I’m sure they were up to something bad because that’s what kids do. But as long as they were away from me it wouldn’t be my concern. I’m sure there was something with the Radley’s because I heard them whisper about it once. Soon, they will be going to school and then it’ll be just me and the house. It was the first day of school, and after I finished cleaning and preparing for them to come home I did some patchwork and came so close to boredom I turned on the radio. When the kids came for lunch they had a guest and scout treated him with udder disrespect to be given to a guest. I knew that the kid was crazy to put molasses everywhere but she can be so rude sometimes. I took her aside and after that everything was fine after they left, I cleaned the house and took a small nap. I awoke to yelling kids coming into the house and made them leave once again as I started to prepare dinner. Atticus came home from work that evening and joy was once returned to the house. I saw scout and Atticus reading out on the porch and I wished that they could have known their mother. What a great soul she was, but that was many years ago. After I finish cleaning up dinner and prepare for breakfast I fall into a fast sleep anticipating the day tomorrow.