open-minded approach. While most people think that Boo Radley is a freak show, she does not. "Arthur Radley just stays in the house, that's all" is how Miss Maudie explains Boo to the children (44). She never pre-judges anyone but just simply takes people for what they are. Jem and Scout both realize that Miss Maudie is very different than most of the women in Maycomb. "True enough, she had an acid tongue in her head, and she did not go about doing good, as did Miss Stephanie Crawford," but still the children trusted her more than they did anyone else (44). Miss Maudie always lets the children play in her yard and bakes cakes for them. She is almost a child herself because she never tells Atticus anything that the children do wrong. There is only one woman in To Kill A Mockingbird who deals with both the gender and race issue together. The faithful black cook Calpurnia who has been responsible for raising the children is that woman. Calpurnia's way of dealing with the issues has been to separate completely her two worlds from one another. The children are unaware of this until they attend church with Calpurnia. As Scout reveals, "That Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me. The idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her having command of two languages" (125). It was amazing for the children to see how differently Calpurnia spoke in both worlds. Even though the Finch's accepted Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra does not. Aunt Alexandra commented once "don't talk like that in front of them" when Atticus referred to Braxton Underwood hating Negroes (156). She even went, as far as to allude that Calpurnia was unfit to raise the children. This was the typical view of blacks in To Kill A Mockingbird. People often referred to blacks as "them" as a whole race instead of individual people which strengthened the stereotypes about the whole population. The iron...
