“Lula stopped, but she said, ‘ You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillum here---they got their church, we got our’n it is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal?’” (Lee 158). This question from Lula directed at Cal shows the large difference in way of life between the upper and lower class. She shows that the upper and lower class do not interact with each other and do not quite get along. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, equal creation is not often seen in social classes with the large gap between upper and lower class, but this division between the classes can be crossed. The upper and lower classes have a hard time understanding one another with their large differences in way of ...view middle of the document...
One family in To Kill A Mockingbird that is in this gap is the Ewells. The Ewells are a poor, lower class family of Maycomb. They live behind the garbage dumb in the black park of town. They live as guests of the county or white trash (Lee 227). Upper class people live in their elaborate houses eating expensive foods and living the high life. Many upper class people, in the time of To Kill A Mockingbird, had maids and servants that were part of the lower class waiting on their every need. Lower class people live in the shadows leading their lives in order to survive in this world. These separate ways a life provide very different perceptions of life. Upper class people may look at life and take advantage of it and lower class people will see it for what it is and make the most of it.
The social class that you are born in is not the one you have to stay in. One person that Harper Lee creates that experiences both social classes is Cal. She has an interesting insight on classes stating “’It’s right hard to say,’ she [Cal] said. ‘ Suppose you and Scout talked colored-folks’ talk at home it’d be out of place, wouldn’t it? Now what if I talked white-folks’ talk at church, and with my neighbors? They’d think I was puttin’ on...
