Chapter 9

Summary: Chapter 9

In chapter 9, Cecil Jacobs, Scout's classmate insults Scout by saying that her father, Atticus was a nigger defender. Scout was about to start  a fight but she did not, since she had to understand that there will always be people who disagree. Atticus defends Tom Robinson because as a lawyer he does not like to be part of an injustice community. 

It was Christmas time, and uncle Jack, Atticus brother, came to visit the Finch. After staying for days, Jack, Scout, Jim, and Atticus went to the Finch landing. In the Finch landing lived Aunt Alexandra and her husband. Here Scout was not free from all the insults, there was Francis, Alexandra;s grandson. Scout beats Francis for calling Dill a runt and Atticus a " nigger lover". Francis tells Alexandra and Uncle Jack that Scout hit him, and Uncle Jack spanks her without hearing her side of the story. When they returned to Maycomb, uncle Jack hears her side of the story. She makes uncle Jack promise to not tell Atticus about the fight or else he will be disappointed. Uncle Jack realizes that he is not a good uncle, and what her niece was saying was true, he felts sorry for smacking her and not hearing her side of the story before. Scout overhears Atticus and Jack talking downstairs talking about Tom Robinson's innocence but that wont be enough because he knows that the jury will  not acquit him because they believe to a white person's testimony over a black person's.