the only real character that represents any kind of challenge is calpurnia.n order to access that challenge, we have to see past scout's perspective. there's the moment where calpurnia takes the children - that is the nanny/housekeeper - and takes the children to her african-american church scout recognises that there's a world that calpurnia exist in but doesn't know anything about. she doesn't know how old she is or her family. and references how calpurnia speaks a different language to what scout is used to hearing. there's a sense that there is another world. scout barely has access to it. for students, they are not getting access to that other world, and so for students of colour, it's hard to find power, heroism in the text. >> charles shields, if you go into a book store, if you find one, there's a discrete section of young adult fiction or juvenile fiction. did harper lee think she was writing a book that would be read by 14 or 15-year-olds. >> no, her publisher didn't think it would sell many copies. she was told if we sell 2500 copies, that would be