To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Fill-in,
Chapter One
, the
narrator, tells the reader in the first lines of chapter 1 that Jem got his broken when he was years old. When
Scout and her brother talk about it years later, Scout maintains that the whole
story of Jem breaking his started
with the Ewells. But Jem disagrees; he says it started earlier when their
friend first came
and visited and gave them the idea of “making Radley
come out.”
Scout decides that if the story is going to be told correctly, a bit of family
history is needed. The first Finch to come to , the state where
the story takes place, was Finch,
who was a devout Methodist. Scout tells us that he went against the church
rules and owned ,
or “human chattels.” Usually the Finch men stayed on at Finch’s Landing, but
Scout’s father, ,
left to study in
After Scout’s father finishes his studies, he moves to ,
The reader finds out that Scout is about to turn years
old and her brother is almost years
old. She lives with her brother, father, and her cook, . Scout’s mother
died when she was only years
old. Although Scout and Jem find their father satisfactory, he is a bit
detached.
One morning while Scout and Jem played in their backyard, they met Charles
Baker Harris, who called himself .
He tells the Finch children that he is going on years
old. He was visiting his Aunt .
He lives usually in ,
After growing tired of the usual games they played, wanted
to get Radley,
whose real name is Arthur Radley, to come out. The children were intrigued by
the mystery that surrounded the Radley’s household. There are many town myths about .
There is one that involves him stabbing his in
the with .
is so excited about that
he dares Jem to run up and touch the house. After Jem does it, they all think
they saw a shutter move inside the house.
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