To Kill a Mockingbird
Why did Calpurnia speak differently at the church?
chapter 12
chapter 12
Jem asks Calpurnia why she doesn't speak with proper grammar around black people, and Calpurnia explains that it would be out of place, and that she would look pretentious. The others don't want to learn to speak the "right" way, she says, so she speaks their language.
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