Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Chapters 12/13: What does Scout learn (and the reader) through the trip to the church about the divisions in Maycomb County? (Graham
Through visiting the First Purchase Church, both Scout and the reader learn that the divisions in Maycomb are deeply influenced by race. The lifestyles of the people in Maycomb can be drastically different depending on what color their skin is. The best example of this would be comparing the church that the Finches go to and the First Purchase Church. While the Church that the Finches usually go to has songbooks that people can read lyrics off of, the First Purchase church does not have anything like that. Instead, the First Purchase Church uses a singing technique called lining, which is where the audience repeats what the main singer is singing. The reason they use lining instead of reading off of songbooks is because many of the people in the audience of the First Purchase Church cannot read. On the other hand, songbooks are provided at the Finches Church because everybody there is expected to know how to read. A person who represents the division between race is Lula. Lula tells Calpurnia, “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white children here - they got their church, we got our’n.”(Lee, 136) As the quote shows, Lula thinks strongly about how people should be separated in Maycomb. Her opinion is that the church should be divided by race, like many other things in Maycomb are. She probably thinks about it this way because she has been influenced strongly by the Maycomb way of life. If she were to grow up in a society without things being divided by race, her opinion would probably be different.
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I agree with Graham about the major differences between the Finches church and the First Purchase church. To add on to Graham I think there is also a wealth gap between the churches, for example The First Purchase Church is much less luxurious than the church that the Fiches go to. As Scout is explaining the church she says "It was an ancient paint-peeled frame building... newer ones were out-lined with brightly colored glass and broken Coca-Cola bottles" (Lee 134-135). In this quote Scout was explaining her first impression of the church and she was clearly not impressed with what she was witnessing.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the divisions in Maycomb county are deeply influenced by race. Scout and Jem are not used to the church where Calpurnia attends. Many thigs are different, for example, there are no song books. Also this church does not think that is it acceptable that there are two white children attending a church of color, “‘It is our church ain't it Ms. Cal.’ Calpurina said, ‘Its the same God ain’t it’” (Lee 163).
ReplyDeleteI agree with Graham about how the churches are divided, and how lifestyles in Maycomb between races is so different. I feel like these two races are very different in this town because white people get to experience more. They have the ability to learn reading and they have more money overall. This definitely reflects on the churches. As shown in the book the first purchase church doesn't have books because people can't read and also because they may not be able to fund it. And the Finch's church does have books because everyone is expected to read because they all have the luxury to learn to read. Just a church can show minor differences between two races in this town.
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