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andrea4
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High School - 10th Grade

Where is Scout called a "nigger lover"?

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Posted by andrea4 on Sunday April 5, 2009 at 8:54 PM and tagged with scout, to kill a mockingbird.

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  1. mwestwood
    mwestwood Teacher
    Community / Jr. College

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    In Chapter 11 of "To Kill a Mockingbird" Scout asks her father

    'Atticus....what exactly is a n____-lover?'

    Atticus's face was grave.  'Has somebody been calling you that?'

    'No sir, Mrs. Dubose calls you that.  She warms up every afternoon calling you that.  Francis called me that last Christmas, that's where I first heard it.'

    So, Scout is called the pejorative term in Chapter 9.  Francis, the cousin of Scout tells her that their grandmother

    says it's bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he's turned out a n-lover we'll never be able to walk the streets of Macomb agin.  He ruinin' the family that's what he's doin'.

    Then Francis hurls his insult at Atticus, and, finally he calls Scout one.  Even Atticus's own relatives have what he terms "Maycomb's usual disease," For they demean Atticus for defending Tom Robinson, even though he was assigned to be the public defender.  As a man of conscience, Atticus feels that it is only right that he defend Tom as well as he can.  Besides this matter of ethics, Atticus also knows that Tom is innocent and should not be charged with the crime simply because he is black.

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/mockingbird/chapter-10-summary-anal...
    http://www.enotes.com/mockingbird/chapter-9-summary-analysis

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    Posted by mwestwood on Sunday April 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM


  2. keith1234 Student
    High School - 10th Grade

    at Aunt Alexanders house by her sonanything else keith1234

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    Posted by keith1234 on Monday April 6, 2009 at 8:44 AM