Summary

The first person narrator of “The Highest Branch on the Tree” by Ray Bradbury, a man named Douglas Spaulding, recalls one of his classmates from high school, Harry Hands. The boy was constantly bullied by Spaulding and his classmates, once by hanging his pants on the highest branch of a tree in the school yard.

The narrator recalls how Harry climbed after his pants and urinated on his bullies. After that, he refused to get down from the tree. This was the last time the narrator saw Harry, who never returned to school after the incident. The narrator explains that he and his classmates picked on Harry because he appeared to be cleverer than the rest, he was good at sports, and he was also arrogant about it. 

After Harry disappeared, the narrat...