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" When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. "
Using Deliberative Techniques in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom ... - Page 58
by Nancy Claxton - 2008 - 179 pages
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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

Anita Price Davis - 1994 - 130 pages
...interruption in the continuity of a story by the narration of an earlier episode. Scout begins by saying, "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." She then states that, "When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes...
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The Remedial Writing Teacher's Handbook

Vicki L. Hackett, Paul C. Dalmas - 1996 - 166 pages
...quarterbacks getting the captain's signals, now straightened. — Betty Smith, Joy in the Moming, p. 35. 3. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right;...angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, p. 7. The Paragraph Coordinate, Subordinate, and Mixed Sequences...
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A Time to Tell: Narrative Strategies in Ecclesiastes

Eric S. Christianson - 1998 - 314 pages
...for example, the reflections of Scout, the primary narrator in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his...were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his characters (the man of 6.3ab, 4, and the stillborn [^S3n; cf. Job 3.16] of 6.3c, 5) and events functional...
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On Sibling Love, Queer Attachment and American Writing

Denis Flannery - 2007 - 192 pages
...popular culture. Lee's novel is also very much a text about sibling attachment. Its first words are: 'When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow' ( 1 ). So, like Fincher's film, it invokes very early on images of sibling dependence and the image...
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Richard Lederer's Literary Trivia

Richard Lederer - 2007 - 118 pages
...few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. 15. Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! 16. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. 17. It was a dark and stormy night . . . 18. They're out there. 19. "Christmas won't be Christmas without...
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