The next morning was Christmas and after receiving the air rifles they begged for, it was time to go to Finch's Landing to visit their Aunt Alexandra. He gave her a talking-to after dinner, instructing her that words like 'damn' and 'hell' were only to be used in instances of extreme provocation and that was that. 83, Jack could take no more of Scout's vulgarity. He, however, just ignored it and advised his brother to do so as well, but when Scout requested at dinner that Jack 'pass the damn ham, please' Chapter 9, Pg. She thought that if Atticus figured she had learned such words at school, he'd stop sending her. Shortly after his arrival, he was introduced to Scout's new speech - she was cursing left and right as part of her campaign to get out of school. Uncle Jack, younger brother to Atticus, came to spend his annual Christmas week in Maycomb County, and he stayed with Atticus and the kids as usual. So Scout did the unthinkable and walked away from a fight because she didn't want to let Atticus down, and she made good on that bargain until Christmas. He wanted her to remember that although it might get ugly, these people were still their friends and Maycomb County was still their home. Scout really didn't understand what he was talking about, but he asked her not to fight whenever someone made comments about him or this case. He said that he had to do it although he knew he wasn't going to win because if he didn't take on this fight, he couldn't expect Jem or Scout to ever mind him again, and he couldn't represent their town in the state legislature. Atticus explained to her that he was defending Tom Robinson, a black man, in a trial. Scout wasn't sure what he meant by that or why that was such a bad thing, so before she cleaned his clock, she consulted Atticus to learn more about the matter. A kid at school began giving Scout trouble because her father was defending a black man.

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