CHAPTER NINE..

In the beginning of Chapter nine, we read in class about what Atticus’ words and actions really mean. This chapter starts off with Scout kind of “triggered” at Cecil Jacobs and her fists clenched. Cecil got her mad because Cecil said that Atticus liked African Americans since he was helping an African American who was accused of raping a white woman. He is doing this even though most people of Maycomb don’t think that he should do this. When scout got back from school, she asked if he defended the African Americans and he said yes. She then asked if ALL lawyers defended the African Americans, in which he said that they did too. He then explained to her that the man he was defending was Tom Robinson who went to the same church as Calpurnia who also said that Tom wouldn’t do that.Scout told him to drop the case since she was getting teased at school and since he knew he wouldn’t make any money by it because he knows that an African American never wins a trial. He said that if he didn’t take the case, then he would be ashamed of himself and wouldn’t even face his children even though he’s quite sure that Tom didn’t even do it . Cecil kept on teasing Scout about Atticus and she was about to fight him again until she remembered what Atticus had told her about not fighting with her fists, this was the first fight she had walked away from a fight. Three weeks later, Christmas had came and she was excited to see her uncle Jack. He was her favorite uncle since he was so funny and loving. Her other relatives also came who were her aunt Alexandra and uncle Jimmy and their Grandson, Francis. During dinner, Scout kept swearing in front of everyone, which she was doing to get Atticus’ attention. She wanted to show him how she was picking up that language from school so he could make her stop going to school. She was swearing so much that uncle Jack had to tell her to stop. The next day, uncle Jack had given Jem and Scout toy rifles and Atticus told them that they weren't allowed to use it or bring it into the house when she was already imagining shooting Francis. They went to aunt’s house who lived where Finch’s cotton farm was. Scout was having problems over at her house but she didn’t seem to mind since the food she cooked was all worth it. After dinner, Scout sat down on the porch and Francis came too as they talked about Dill and how she was planning to marry him in the future but then Francis teased her about it so she beat him up. She got whipped for this since she was beginning to get really aggressive.  She cried and went upstairs and he later then talked to her since he didn’t understand what Scout was going through. He didn’t know how to deal with this so he left off with telling scout a funny story and then went to Atticus and tell him everything of what had happened.