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    What literary character spoke the line, “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow”?

    Question #107103. Asked by BRY2K. (Jul 15 09 6:18 PM)


    Arpeggionist

    		Scout Finch, from the novel "To Kill a Mocking Bird", begins a tale set in Mississipi in the 1920s with that sentence.

    http://pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/mocking15.asp

    [Link added -- Zb]

    Jul 15 09, 6:30 PM
    BRY2K

    		True, reference?

    Jul 15 09, 6:37 PM
    Prison

    		Scout Finch begins Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird with that line.

    http://neabigread.com/books/mockingbird/readers02.php

    Jul 15 09, 6:44 PM

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