TKAM - Chapter 1 - created from Mind Map

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Summary

- Narrator (Scout) begins by telling us of her brothers injured arm + family history.

The earliest ancestor is Simon Finch who establisheda successful farm (Finch's Landing) outside Maycomb Alabama.

Scouts Father is a lawyer + mother passed away when Scout was 2 years old (Heart Attack) - Scout doesn't remember her but Jem does and this made him sad sometimes.

It is summer and their neighbor ( Miss Rachel Haverford's) nephew, Dill has come to stay for the summer. They spend the summer together playing games and re-inacting books & speculating about the Radley house. They see most interested in Boo, who they believe stalks the neighbourhood at night. Dill challenges Jem to touch the Radley house, after a couple of days of pressure, Jem gives in.