To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Chapter 1
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
When it healed, and Jem s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged,
he was seldom self-conscious about his...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Chapter 1
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
When it healed, and Jem s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged,
he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.
His left arm was somewhat shorter
than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles
to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh.
He couldn t have cared less, so long
as he could pass and punt.
When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes
discussed the events leading to his accident.
I maintain that the Ewells started it
all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that.
He
said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of
making Boo Radley come out.
I said if be wanted to take a broad view of the thing, it really began with Andrew
Jackson.
If General Jackson hadn t run the Creeks up the creek, Simon Finc
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