Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Who is Cecil Jacobs in chapters 8-9?

Cecil Jacobs is one of Scout's classmates in To
Kill a Mockingbird
. After Cecil announces that "Scout Finch's daddy defends
niggers," Scout demands that he "take that back, boy." With fists clenched, she awaits
his answer. Scout has been warned by Atticus that he would "wear me out if he ever heard
of me fighting any more." But, according to Scout, "I soon forgot." He apparently became
another male victim of her flying fists, just as Walter Cunningham Jr. had been (and
cousin Francis would soon become). Cecil would later reappear in a surprising manner on
the night of the fateful Halloween carnival.

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