POINT OF VIEW passage on page 135 PASSAGE # 5

The warm bittersweet smell of clean Negro welcomed us as we entered the church-Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's cologne, Brown's Mule,peppermint and lilac talum.
When they saw Jem and me with Calpurnia, the men stopped back and took off their hats;the women crossed their arms at their waists, weekday gestures of respectful attention. They patted and made a small pathway to the church door for us. Calpurnia walked between Jem and me, responding to the greetings of her brightly clad neighbors.
"What you up to, Miss Cal?" said a voice behind us.
Calpurnia's hands went to our shoulders and we stopped and looked around:standing in the path behind us was a tall Negro woman. Her weight was on one leg;she rested her left elbow in the curve of her hip, pointing at us with upturned palm. She was bullet-headed with strange almond shaped eyes, straight nose, and an Indian-bow mouth. She seemed seven feet high.


Scout is the narrator of this story. SHe shows a lot of personality, and never hides her true feelings. In this passage she describes how everything she sees smells, and looks. The way the people look, and the movement they make. From the way she is describing this experience, I can see she dosen't do this often.

She describes the smells with a lot of different scents that all come together to make the smell she smells. NO one else could come up with all those different smells, because it's her point of view. She describes the tall woman as bullet-headed, strange almond shaped eyes, straight nose, an Indian Bow mouth, and seven feet high. I would never be able to describe the same person the way Scout did. Because I am not SCout. It's all from her point of view. THe significance of this passage is to show the racial tension between the white children walking into a black church with a white woman. Everyone is not greeting them, they're just staring.

Maya