Chapter 1 :
Scout Finch grew up in a small, tired town of Maycomb found in the state of Alabama. Now an adult she begins reminiscing about a very interesting part of her childhood which involved her, her brother Jem and father Atticus. Atticus is a successful lawyer and a well-known and respected person around the town.
Scout introduces the story by recalling the time that Jem broke his arm, he was nearly thirteen at the time. When enough years after the incident had past, she and her brother could look back to the events that lead to Jem braking his arm. She starts telling the events that lead to Jem's arm being broken, and she decides to start right at the beginning of the tale.
As the story begins, summer has just started. At this time, Scout was six and Jem was ten. While looking into the neighbor's garden patch they notice a small boy laying amongst the vegetables, he introduces himself as Dill. The three children become best friends, after they discover that Dill had seen the horror film 'Dracula'.
As the summer progresses, Scout, Jem and Dill become urged to get their Neighbour, Boo Radley to come out of his home, since legend has said that Boo never leaves his house. Most of the town's crimes have been blamed on Boo because when Boo was younger he was charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and using profanity in the company of a female. After Boo was arrested, neighbours on the street began calling Boo insane and requested that he was taken to a mental asylum, however Boo's father refused that they send his son to an asylum and instead locked him away in his home. When Boo's father died, his brother looked after him, till then Boo has never left his home.
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