Character Analysis : ' The Point Of View ' Scout '

“Scout’s Honor” by Avi is a realistic fiction short story about 3 boys who are trying to make it to the next level in Boy Scouts. In the beginning, the 9 year old boys decide to leave New York and camp in New Jersey for the weekend without adult supervision. Later in the story the boys finally realize they were way over their heads. They were unprepared and too inexperienced to go camping so far from home. In the end, the boys make it back to New York. Before they split up to go to their own homes they admitted they weren’t as brave as each other and head home. Throughout the story, the boys struggle about what it means to be tough.

Before, Jem would always be Scout’s playmate but now he tells her to “stop pestering him” and that she should start “bein’ a girl and acting right”. Jem now likes to be kept alone and feels as if Scout is a lot more childish than he had realized.

After doing these childish games for a while, Jem starts to grow up. One Quote to prove this is when Scout says, “ Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose on them on me: several times he went so far as to tell me what to do,” (131). This proves Jem

Responsibility develops in children when their parents do not spend time with them, which causes the children to learn how to take care of themselves early on in their lives, and this is the case of Jem. Jem’s and Scout’s mother died a long time ago, and their father, Atticus, works for the majority of the day, which causes him to not have enough time to discipline his children and take care of them like a father should. Due to these circumstances, the expectation of Jem to act like a parent and the responsible child of the family is extremely high. Taking the following quote into consideration further proves the observation of Jem having to act responsibly. “Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one’s parents, but Atticus had said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was” (Lee 15). Instead of Scout’s father, her brother takes her to school on the first day, which is usually an activity done by the children’s parents, but because Atticus does not have the time to take Scout to school, because of his work, Jem had to accept the responsibility of taking care of his sister and taking her to

As To Kill a Mockingbird progresses, Jem takes definitive steps toward maturity with his actions in the tire and flower incidents, for example. He would later go on to repair the flowerbed he destroyed, and take greater care to protect Scout. Through his actions, we can see Jem develop a sense of morals and responsibility that would prove to be a lifesaver.

Scout tries to resist her community’s attempts to shape her into a ‘proper’ young lady in several different ways.

To begin, Jem at the beginning of the book didn’t care about what he was doing/saying and the consequences that came with it. He just did whatever he pleased while trying

Jem had changed throughout the story from acting like a child and doing things that children do to becoming more mature and taking part in the

Jem came upon a realization and immediately coped with it internally. Scout, whereas looks to others to help her comprehend her loss of innocence. Their moral growth differs because of their preexisting levels of maturity and how they deal with their loss of innocence.

As the novel progresses, both Jem and Scout are shown to mature, this is due to "To Kill A Mockingbird" being a bildungsroman novel. Through this coming of age process, we are actually shown Jem’s new found maturity enabling him to find empathy and acceptance regarding the Boo Radley myths, as he finally took his father’s advice to “climb into someone else’s skin and walk around in it” when he was explaining to Scout his epiphany that he “[is] beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut in his house all this time. It’s because he wants to stay inside.”

Jem, the eldest, is often the leader of the two and at a young age, they relied on one another as playmates, so he utilized his greater authority to make fair and peaceful decisions. Later, as Jem grows up, he craves independence and believes himself superior to Scout, mainly for reasons of gender and age. He bosses her around, because her actions contradict his beliefs of right and wrong, superior and inferior. Eventually, Jem learns to accept and respect her difference, and although they are no longer codependent, they can still function as a team. From this, it is clear that Jem has grown apart from Scout, but his values allow him to support her regardless of their

Scout hung out with friends/people her own age. She mostly hangs out with people older than her. This is the first step of Scout becoming independent. She doesn't always need Jem around. Since she’s going to start hanging out with other people than her brother she will learn to protect herself and learn from life on her own. She will have more people she can rely on and come to when she needs help or feeling

Jem is young and carefree in the beginning of the novel. He is just starting to take on the responsibilities of an older brother: “Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one’s parents, but Atticus said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.” (p.20). Atticus is trusting Jem to safely get Scout to school, and help her

In addition to Jem’s childish, protective, and playful nature- he is also scheming and possesses a clever mind. He demonstrates this with his knack for avoiding conflict, finding loopholes in regards to the rules Atticus has set for him and Scout, and luring out Boo Radley. This mischievousness sometimes causes Jem to be a troublemaker. Despite his cunning nature- as the novel progresses, Jem changes and develops into a more mature and responsible character as

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is one of the main characters and the narrator. During the time the book begins, she is a little 6 year-old girl who is mature for her age, and she continues to mature as the book progresses. Over the course of the novel, Scout develops an exceptional character which is constantly changing from the effects of different events and characters. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee uses the minor characters Boo Radley, Miss Maudie, and Aunt Alexandra to help develop Scout into a strong and compassionate human being from the innocent child she used to be.