Calpurnia

American  

[kal-pur-nee-uh] / kælˈpɜr ni ə /

noun

1. flourished 1st century b.c., third wife of Julius Caesar 59–44.

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Example Sentences

While Mr. Sorkin’s version closely tracks Ms. Lee’s novel — the story of Atticus Finch, a small-town lawyer in Alabama who defends a black man, Tom Robinson, against false charges — it follows a dramatically different narrative structure, and gives more prominent roles to the novel’s two main African-American characters, Robinson and Calpurnia, the Finch family cook.

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I would have preferred a sequel where Scout discovers that her real mother is Calpurnia, the black maid, and Atticus discovers that Boo Radley, the mentally challenged neighbor, is the real father!

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Calpurnia would now be the central character.

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How will she look at Atticus now that he is no longer the “platonic ideal of a father”? Her exploration of Calpurnia and her past would become the nexus of the new story!

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The black characters — Robinson and the family’s housekeeper, Calpurnia — are mostly there as figures onto which the white people around them can project various thoughts and feelings.

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