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For my project I chose to do the collage. In my collage is a family tree of the Finch family in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The family tree has Atticus, Aunt Alexandra, Jem, Scout, and Calpurnia. Even if Calpurnia not part of the Finch family by blood, she is still a big part of Jem and Scouts lives. Even though Aunt Alexandra does not approve of Calpurnia being a role model in the children's lives. Atticus disagrees with his sister, he feels that “Anything fit to say at the table’s fit to say in front of Calpurnia. She knows what she means to this family.”(Lee, 83). Jem and Scout feel the same way about Calpurnia they love her and could never live without her.

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