Atticus reveals to Scout that he will be defending black man, explaining that he feels that if he didn’t he wouldn’t be holding up his end of the bargain in town. People at school and their relatives didn’t take the news well. Christmas Eve came around and Scout explains that every Christmas she, Atticus, and Jem go over to Finch’s landing. Francis is introduced, he is a year older than Scout, he is the son of Henry. Scout starts to cuss more frequently even around her own relatives, in hope of it causing her dad to take her out of her current school. Uncle Jack is introduced, he is a man who doesn’t put up with (for lack of a better word) crap. He doesn’t like the fact that Scout is using words such as damn and hell. Uncle Jack says, unless if it’s under extreme circumstances, if she doesn’t stop with the swearing it will get her in trouble. On Christmas Scout and Jem get airguns. …show more content…
Without listening to Scout’s side of the story uncle Jack tells Scout that he never wants to see her and that he hopes she dies. Scout doesn’t take this well and tries to go to her dad for comfort, but her dad said that she already had it coming for her. Later, Scout and uncle Jack sit down and talk about the incident earlier, Scout explains that uncle Jack doesn’t get children and that he should listen to both sides of the story, before jumping to conclusions. When Scout explains her side of the story, he tells uncle Jack that Francis called Atticus a n****r