Calpurnia
Calpurnia is a role model figure for Jem and Scout while they grow up in southern Alabama .She has good morals and honesty, plus appreciates the value of hard work, and gives them the discipline that they will need through life. She disallows her black background to deter her ability as a role model. She never allows them to get into trouble and does her best to make sure they grow up with morals, values and are well behaved children. They look up to her as a mother figure possibly because of Jem and scout lost there’s and she may feel that they need that sort feminine mother like input in their life. She enforcers rules around the house and her expectations for them in society. She also symbolizes the positive impact black nannies could be to white children during such a racially segregated time.
At the beginning of the book Scout thinks of Calpurnia as some kind of evil wicked stepmother to Scout that stops who doing what she wants to do.

“She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted, she squinted, her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn't ready to come. Our battles were epic and one-sided. Calpurnia always won, mainly because Atticus always took her side. She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember”
Calpurnia lives a kind of double life they first discover when she takes the Finch kids with her to an African American Church, Calpurnia shows them a different side of her character. new May comb’s African-American culture, Calpurnia surprises Jem and Scout by speaking in a voice they’d never heard her use before.
Calpurnia teaches Scout and Jem about the community and the role they play in it what’s right in one place may be wrong in another. Atticus is famous for acting