To Kill a Mockingbird
What is peculiar about Tom that would lead one to believe that he could not have grabbed the girl and beaten and raped her?
Chapter 18
Chapter 18
Tom's left arm is twelve inches shorter than his right, due to an accident in his youth when the arm got stuck a cotton gin.
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