Analysis from chapters 12, 13, 14

There's still one more test about the whole book this time, though not an essay, for my luck. This time the task is to analyse the following chapters from the book to get a better comprehension. Hope it's usefull.

Ch. 12

1. Comment on Jem's and Scout's visit to First Purchase Church. What does Scout learn about how black people live?

She learns that they were very kind to them, not just for being white though for being the childs of Atticus Finch. They were very catholics indeed, with a strange ceremony according to Scout, and just one person wasn't kind with them and every other colored folk defend 'em. They were more poor than whites, many of them couldn't read and they spoke dialect, which was strange for Scout and Jem.

2. Explain why Calpurnia speaks differently in the Finch household, and among her neighbours at church.

She says she is like them, so it was natural, and if she speaked as a white person was like trying to be what she wasn't and that wasn't right.

Ch. 13

3. Aunt Alexandra thinks Scout is "dull" (not clever). Why does she think this, and is she right? 

She says Scout is dull because she is not what society expects from her, she is "wild", don't wear dresses, play with boys, curses, fights...

4. How does Aunt Alexandra involve herself in Macomb's social life?

She goes to every meeting, and as she belongs to the Finch's family she is well recieved by everyone, so she made a very bussy social life in Maycomb city.

5. Comment on Aunt Alexandra's ideas about breeding and family, in contrast to Atticus' visions. Who's right, do you think? Why?

Aunt Alexandra is traditionalist, she wants to rise the family name, or keep it clean, she believes in stereotypes, as her first intention is to make Jean a lady, and Atticus don't really care about those traditions and ways of thinking that his sister has got, he is relaxed and let Jem and Scout be free and make their own choises about life.

Ch. 14. 

6. Comment on Atticus' definition of rape. How suitable is this definition as an answer to Scout?

Atticus gives a definition of rape that is the most proper one, though Scout doesn't really realizes what it is, and that's mainly what Atticus wanted.

I don't really know many cultures, I've been in Brasil and the stereotype I've got from them is that they just live the life, they are relaxed and they can go swim any time of the day... of course I'm wrong, but when someone mentions a brazilian I imagine a black person with coco water, in a white t shirt, a wide hat and at the beach. So prejudje is something so easy to commit that it's not weird to find it everywere, black people have their customs, and of course someone might say not every black person does that, but it's related to traditions and what people of a comunnity is used to do what makes everyone go into the same sin, discrimination.