How Jem And Scout's Relationship Changes

on going to the jail when he senses that his father may be in danger.

Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout change tremendously. They do not change physically, but rather mentally. Their maturation can be seen as the novel progresses and by the end of the story they seem to be two completely different people. As the novel goes on, the reader can see that Jem and Scout mature even when the rest of the town does not.

For a while in the book the author makes it seem that scout is a boy, when she is really a girl. This is one of their differences, Jem is a boy and scout is a girl. The author does not state that Scout is a girl until page 50 when Jem says “I swear Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it's mortifying.” Jem is very much a tomboy. She never wheres dresses she dresses like a boy. These things make you jump to the conclusion that the character is a boy. Another difference is that Jem is four years older than scout and is more mature than scout. Like when Dill ran away from home and Scout did not want their dad to know Jem knew it was the right thing to do ( Lee 141).Jem knew that it was not right for Dill to run away without telling anyone so Jem got Atticus, which was the mature thing to do.Some parts in the story (mostly after the second part) you start to notice that Jem is starting to mature and grow up. Lastly one of the differences is that Scout fights but Jem doesn't. I know this because up to the parts I have read Jem has no gotten into a fist fight with anyone other than his sister. He is someone who knows how to control his anger unlike

Jean Louise “Scout” Finch has an evolution of character when certain conflicts and realizations lead her to change throughout the novel. At first, Scout is innocent, thinking that her home, Maycomb County and the people in it, are going to be the same as they were close to twenty years ago. Scout is a smart girl, young and confident, she does not worry about what she’s wearing or what others think of her. Scout wears clothing that her aunt and the people of Maycomb wouldn’t accept, “I do wish this time you’d try to dress better when you’re home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are-ah-slumming.” (Lee 21). Aunt Alexandra has told Scout many times that she should not dress the way she does but Scout doesn’t listen.

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

It is clear Jem is maturing while Scout is not. At the beginning of chapter twelve there is a definite change in Jem. Previously Jem hated Mrs. Dubose for the names he calls Atticus and refused to see Mrs. Dubose’s side. Not much later Scout states that “Mrs. Dubose was not cold in her grave - Jem had seemed grateful enough for my company when he went to read to her. Overnight, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values.” (115 Lee). Jem seems to have forgiven Mrs. Dubose to some extent, and even respects her. Scout doesn’t understand and finds this alien and sudden.

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

As people grow up in life they get older and lose their innocence and mature. Growing up should be fun but learning about the bad realities of your society can be difficult and life changing. In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, as scout ( Jean Louise) grows up she sees the changes in her society, but those that make her change and the most that affect her life are her community, parenting, role of women, and courage. Scout learns more and more about the world as she gets older and she starts seeing the conflict between the whites and the blacks. Scout hears a lot of rumours about Boo Radley but never sees him. She knows how her society is bad from the day of Tom Robinson’s trial, all the rumors about Boo Radley and when she goes to church with Calpurnia.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee has described life of a young narrator named Finch Louse (also being called as Scout) throughout her life years growing up under a small town called Maycomb. As a little child, Scout has many questions about things that is happening around her making her an objective observer and a reporter in the truest sense. She mostly learned from Atticus perspective, but also learned from the people of Maycomb. Throughout the novel, Scout have improved her acknowledge from experiencing, learned much about justice tolerance and figuring out how to solve her problem; leading her mind of "good" thinking (control over what she is thinking) to become more mature in life.

In conclusion, jem is changing in the book but however scout is changing more than jem.

Jem and Scouts experiences growing up in the deep south allow them to uniquely mature following the events the night of the fire, their witnessing of and fathers involvement in the courthouse, and their attack, attacker, and savior, introduce them to a harsher reality outside their own control and allow their perspective of both individuals and society to mature.

In the book "To Kill A Mockingbird", Scout was the main character. Only, was she the one who had the big impact and the big change. In the story she is young so she wouldn't understand many things. What about her brother Jem, he was in seventh grade who can process things better than Scout can. That doesn't really matter, but what does matter is which one of them showed their affections more effectively making them look like they changed the most.

In To Kill A Mockingbird chapter 12, the State Legislature calls Atticus to the “emergency session,” so he is gone for two weeks (Lee 116). Scout and Jem, who is being very moody, are left alone at home with Calpurnia. Scout was expecting Dill, but a letter from Dill confirmed that this would be a horrible summer for her. Dill sent Scout a picture of his new father, a lawyer, and told her that he was going to build a boat with him during the summer. Calpurnia bathes Jem and Scout roughly and dresses the kids in their finest clothes because she is taking them to her church, First Purchase African M.E Church. Lula, a Black lady, confronted them when they arrived, and told Calpurnia that she had “no business bringin’ white chillun [there]” (Lee

Scout is talking about her brother, Jem. Jem is crying for himself and Boo Radley. He is upset that he had been making fun of Boo the whole time when actually Boo just wanted to be their friend. He is also crying because his communication with Boo has been disconnected. Nathan filled the tree up with cement, and now Jem and Scout can not send him letters, and he can't send them things. This is an example of how Jem is growing up. He realizes that what he has been doing to Boo Radley was wrong. He also realizes that Nathan is treating Boo exactly how Mr. Radley treated him. One can tell that Jem is really upset because he is crying- and boys never cry- except for when something truly bad has happened to