During chapter twelve Scout got a letter from Dill after the first few days of summer had past saying that he would not be coming to Maycomb because he found his father. Dill and his father are going to make a fishing boat and he would be staying in Meridian because he would not have time to come to Maycomb as well as building a boat with his newly found dad. Dill promised to come back and marry Scout and said that he would always love her. Scout was heart broken that Dill was not going to come to Maycomb but it made her feel a little better that she had an eternal fiancé.
Scout eventually got over Dill not coming to Maycomb that summer but to make things worse Atticus left for an emergency legislature meeting and he would be gone for two weeks. Calpurnia was to watch over Jem and Scout while their father was away for the following two weeks and she took them to church with her because she didn’t think that they would behave by themselves. Cal got them all washed up the night before church so that they would look and smell clean, she wanted her congregation to think that she kept good care of her children. Before the service started there was already trouble, one of the ladies from church didn’t want the white kids in a black church. That all got worked out and the church service ended like usual except that they couldn’t leave until ten dollars was collected for the Robinson family who could no get work. At the end of chapter twelve Cal explained why she talked different around her congregation than she did around them and that is about it.
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I could really connect when Jem abd scout went to church with Calpernia!My church choir performed at a all black congregation in North Carolina.They were so much fun they really participated and they have amazing energy!!Every song we sang they were dancing and claping their hands it was like a huge party!After we snag they cooked us some amazing "soul food".They were so welcoming and everyone was so happy we came.I felt like apart of their family.
When I read the part in the book where the kids were not welcomed in Cal's all black church it really made me realize how huge the seperation of blacks and whites were during those times. I just thought that white people did not welcome blacks, but really the blacks didn't welcome the whites if they didn't have to. I can understand their position though because the blacks probably wanted one thing of their own that the whites couldn't interfere with.
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