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To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 9 Analysis

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In Chapter 9 Scout almost gets in a fight with a student because they said “Scout Finch’s daddy defends niggers.” Scout and her family go to Finch’s Landing for Christmas to stay with Atticus’s sister, Alexandra. Her grandson Francis doesn’t get along with Scout because he told her that Dill was a runt and called Atticus a “nigger-lover” Scout curses at him and beats him up, Scout gets in trouble for beating him up. Scout tells Jack to promise not to tell Atticus what Francis said because he told her not to fight anyone for what they say about him. In Chapter 9 Scout thinks that Atticus is older than all of the other fathers and it embarrasses her, but one day a dog comes to their house and the sheriff has Atticus shoot it so he does with
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