Harper Lee-To kill a Mockingbird

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PART ONE

CHAPTER ONE

We could never forget the events that had led to my brother Jem's injury. His elbow was so

badly broken that when it healed, his left arm was somewhat shorter than his right and when he

stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his

thigh. But as he was able to play football jut as well as before the accident, he was seldom self-

conscious about that injury. He was nearly thirteen then.

When we grew older and looked back on the years of our childhood, we sometimes discussed

the events that had happened before that accident. I think that the Ewells started it all, but Jem,

who was four years my senior, said that it started that summer when Dill came to us and

suggested that we should make Boo Radley come out.

I couldn't agree with him. I advised him to take a broader view and to begin with Simon Finch

because where would we be if he hadn't come to live in Alabama? We were at the age when we

didn't settle our arguments with fist-fights any longer, so we consulted Atticus. Our father said

we were both right.