Summary

In the sixth frame of page 20, Lewis begins telling the story of his childhood and the graphics change to the family farm and the story's setting and time changes.

As a young boy, Lewis is responsible for caring for the chickens on his family's farm. That frame on page 20 shows a young Lewis shelling corn for chicken feed. An inset on page 21 shows a closeup of that process. The remainder of page 21 is a large frame with fields, a few trees, and a house and a barn. Lewis says his father paid $300 in cash for the 110-acre farm in Pike County, Alabama, in 1940.

In the first three frames on page 22, Lewis says that $300 was all the money his father had saved from working as a sharecropper. The fourth frame stretches across the page and shows Lewis in the doorway of the barn. He...