When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the

elbow

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Elbow

. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were

assuaged

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Assuaged

, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was

somewhat

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Somewhat

shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand

was

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Was

at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. He couldn’t have

cared

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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

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Sometimes

discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells

started

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Started

it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before

that

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That

. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill

first

gave us the idea

of

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Of

making Boo Radley come out. I said if he 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 Finch

would

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Would

never have paddled up the Alabama, and where would we be if he hadn’t?