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How Is Atticus Finch Told In Chapter 9 To Kill A Mockingbird

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Chapter nine opens with the intense scene of Scout facing off with { }classmate Cecil Jacobs. Although Atticus has recently asked Scout to stop fighting, she justifies the situation by saying that Cecil 'has made her forget' by announcing in the schoolyard that, 'Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers,' but after a meaningful flashback that informs readers that Scout had asked Atticus if Cecil's comments were true, we learn why Scout was being teased and taunted by Cecil Jacobs. Atticus has a new case which involves defending Tom Robinson, a black man who "lives in that little settlement beyond the town dump," and who is also a memebr of Calpurnia's church. Atticus tells Scout that he feels he has the duty of defending Tom, because if he didn't "He couldn't hold up his own head in town, he …show more content…

Francis keeps running away from Scout, but unlike her fight with Cecil, she doesn't hold back on this one, and ends up "Splitting her knuckle to the bone on his front teeth." Uncle Jack grabs Scout before she coud hit him again and punishes her for bad language based upon the accusations of Francis. Scout gets extremely upset about the unfairness of the situation, consdiering that she's the only one that truely knows what happend, and after Scout's confession of how the argument really started, Uncle Jack ends up learning a thing or two about

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