To Kill A Mockingbird Calpurnia's Speech

When Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to church, some individuals are glad to meet them except one woman named Lula. When Lula decides to approach Cal she questions her about bringing white children to a black church. “You got no business bringin’ white chillun here -- they got their church, we got our’n, it is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal?”(Lee 158). “It’s the same God, ain’t it?”(Lee 158). This demonstrates that Lula does not approve of the white race coming to places they do not belong to. Calpurnia defends them by reason of her caring for them as she would for her own children. Cal thus far only cares for “her babies” protection seeing that they see her as their only mother