Dr. Cooke is the doctor at Nickel Academy, where he mostly tends to the wounds students get from being beaten by Spencer. In the aftermath of Elwood’s first beating, Dr. Cooke has to remove pieces of fabric from the backs of his legs, since bits of his pants have become embedded in his skin. When Turner joins Elwood in the infirmary, the boys joke that Dr. Cooke hardly ever does anything other than give people aspirin.
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Dr. Cooke Character Timeline in The Nickel Boys
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Chapter Seven
...in the infirmary, but Elwood was too preoccupied by his wounds, enduring the pain as Dr. Cooke carefully picked the fabric of his pants out of his legs, since the material had...
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Chapter Ten
...members find out about what Jaimie did to Earl, but the boys eventually hear that Dr. Cooke attributed the event to Earl’s bad health. In the end, Earl recovers, but he doesn’t...
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