but Jem was a poor example: no tutorial system devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books.
As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home,
but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system,
I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something.
Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
As the year passed, released from school thirty minutes before Jem, who had to stay until three o’clock,
I ran by the Radley Place as fast as I could, not stopping until I reached the safety of our front porch.
One afternoon as I raced by, something caught my eye and caught it in such a way
that I took a deep breath, a long look around, and went back.
Two live oaks stood at the edge of the Radley lot; their roots reached out into the side-road and made it bumpy.
Something about one of the trees attracted my attention.
Some tinfoil was sticking in a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun.
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