To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 1
             Scout (Jean Louise) Finch narrates the story, beginning with a
             brief family history. Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary
             journeyed from England to Alabama, establishing the family which
             made its living from cotton on Simon"s homestead, Finch"s Landing.
             The Civil War left the family only its land, which was the source
             of family incomes until the twentieth century when Atticus Finch
             (Scout"s father) and his brother Jack left the land for careers in
             law and medicine. Atticus settled in Maycomb, the county seat of
             Maycomb County, with a reasonably successful law practice about
             twenty miles from Finch"s Landing, where his sister Alexandra
             Scout describes Maycomb as a lethargic, hot, colorless, narrow-
             minded town where she lives with her father, brother Jem (four
             years older) and the family cook, Calpurnia. Scout"s mother had
             When she was five, Scout and Jem found a new friend, Dill Harris
             ("Goin" on seven"), next door in Miss Rachel Haverford"s collard
             patch. Dill was Miss Rachel"s nephew from Meridian, Mississippi,
             In the summertime, Jem, Scout and Dill usually played within the
             boundaries of Mrs. Henry Dubose"s house (two doors north) and the
             Radley place (three doors south). The Radley place fascinated the
             children, because it was a popular subject of gossip and
             superstition in Maycomb. Arthur Radley had gotten into trouble
             with the law when he was a boy. Instead of being sent to the state
             industrial school, his father took custody of him within their
             house. He was not seen again for fifteen years. Many legends grew
             up about the Radley house and about what went on inside. Miss
             Stephanie Crawford, a neighborhood gossip, added fuel to the fire
             - a fire which included stories of crime, mutilation, curses and
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