Jem Finch Character Analysis

One reason the readers have come to love Jem Finch is the many personality traits he has shown throughout the book. These personality traits also happen to further themes in the book. He’s innocent, idealistic, and responsible. Jem’s innocence is one of the first traits readers are introduced to. It is shown when Jem spreads and believes rumors about Boo Radley: “Jem hissed. ‘Scout, how’s he gonna know what we’re doin’? Besides, I don’t think he’s still there. He died years ago and they stuffed him up a chimney.’” (Lee 39). In this scene Jem, Dill, and Scout are playing “‘Boo Radley.’” (Lee 38). Jem suggested the plan to the others as foolish game where they play out roles of the Radley household. Jem’s action in doing

Jem’s perception of bravery has changed throughout the course of the book. His maturity is a result of Atticus’s actions around him. At the beginning of the book, Jem is dared by his neighbour Dill to touch the door of the Radley’s; the

           Furthermore, on morals, Jem takes his father's advice and steps into other people’s places and sees things from their point of view. One example of this would be how Jem comes to the realization that Arthur Radley, the town shut in who is also known as Boo, stays in his home because he wants to. When realizing this, Jem not only creates a moral but also begins to think for himself instead of believing the lies told by the town gossips. In the beginning of the story Jem believes Arthur has stayed in his house all this time because he is forced to. Jem also believes that Boo is insane and has tried to kill his own family. Nonetheless, Jem does step into Arthur’s shoes and see the town from his perspective. By doing this Jem sees the town as a hateful place filled with judge full people and explains it to Scout that Arthur stays inside because he wants too. This actualization of Arthur ensures that Jem uses this technique with many other situations.

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.

Jem refuses to admit it, but he is terrified of Boo and the horror stories that lurk around him. When Dill challenges him to knock on the doors of the Radley Place, he unsurprisingly follows through because “he loved his honor more than his head” (13). The importance of preserving his reputation and pride overpowers his fear. After the incident, Jem becomes more assertive and constantly boasts about his accomplished feat; he believes that it was an act of bravery, conquering something that no one else dared to do. Dill incessantly tests Jem’s willingness to take on new risks and the Boo Radley Game is invented. The children mock Boo in front of the entire town on a daily basis, and Jem believes he is proving a point by doing a harmless, comical thing. Atticus catches them in the action, yet “[he] hasn’t said [they] couldn’t, therefore [they] could...Jem had thought of a way around it” (41). Like most kids, Jem is brutally honest and goes off of what he hears and what is in plain sight. His doings are prompted by the innocence he still has as well as his lack of exposure to the darker sides of the world. He is unable to make higher-level connections or construct advanced ideas about his environment yet, showing that he is no more mature than the next child.

Jem Finch shows his courage throughout the book in a few different ways. Not only did Jem run to touch the Radley house, but also he chose to stay at the jail to help defend his father. First, all the kids were scared of the Radley house but, Jem decided he would be brave and go to touch it. The Radley house was believed to be the home of the ghost Boo Radley. No one in the neighborhood would even go near the house. But, not only did he touch it but Jem “threw open the gate and

Throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem matures through three important stages of his life. Within these stages Jem’s experiences such as creating plays about Boo Radley, reading to Mrs. Dubose, and processing the Tom Robinson trial all taught him

Jem initially acts childish but starts to think and act like an adult to decisions where he previously would take the immature route. Jem demonstrates his child-like thinking with his vivid imagination. Jem’s imagination has distorted his image of Boo Radley a neighbor with a mysterious past Jem fictitiously describes Boo as a person

We can also tell that Jem is changing, growing up when he says “Scout I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in his house all the time… it’s because he wants to stay inside”. Jem is understanding that people have some sort of a choice to do what they want, meaning that if Boo doesn’t want to come out then he doesn’t have to he can do what he pleases. I think that Jem’s maturity mostly advanced after the Tom Robinson trial. Jem was furious after Tom Robinson was accused guilty as he thought there was not enough evidence

At the beginning of the book, Jem was extremely immature. He was intent on getting Boo Radley to come out of his house. Jem claimed Boo “. . . dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch . . . there was a long jagged scar that ran along his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” (16) Jem created the Boo Radley game, in which him, Dill, and Scout acted out their rumor-filled version of Boo’s life story. Jem also did not question any of Maycomb’s social conventions, and barely even recognized their existence. He had utter faith in Maycomb and did not realize that there was an ugly side to the town he knew and loved. During the trial, Jem said with

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.”

In the beginning of the book he starts by knocking on the window and going on his property. Throughout the book Jem starts to mature because he is hitting puberty. When Jem and Scout discover someone has been leaving things for them inside the knot of a tree he then realizes it is Boo. He and scout then try to leave him a thank you note but, his brother Nathan Radley had filled the hole with cement because, “The tree is dying.” He realizes that the stories of Boo are not true and thinks he isn’t as dangerous as the stories he’s heard everyone say. He also realizes after trying to leave a note on the window Nathan Radley comes out with a shotgun. Then they run away and have to crawl under a chain-link fence, which Jem catches his pants on and in the moment takes them off and leaves them. When he comes back for them he finds them folded and the hole had been sewed up by someone (Boo). Jem grows a lot thru the book because of his understanding of Boo and now knows he is actually a good

Jem Finch also changed quite a lot in the novel, maybe even more than scout. In the start Jem was still a child and so he acted like one. He encouraged risky behaviour like sneaking into the Radley yard, spying on him and even playing games they made up about him. Jem also liked to disclude Scout because she’s a girl and would taunt her when she would question it. Simple things everyone does as a child soon started to fade away and Jem began to mature. He stopped playing games with Scout and Dill and started to become serious like his father. He tried acting like a role model or a wise older brother for Scout to influence her even though she really didn’t like it, and helped her when she needed it most. MIss Maudie even recognised the changes and stopped making him his own individual cake. Everyday Jem became more and more like his father which leads us to my next example. Jem used to want to do things his own way and not listen to anyone. Like when Scout tried to stop him from messing with Boo Radley and he did it anyways, or when he wanted to take things into his own hands and control every game. Soon enough with him maturing he began to understand how things worked and became more obedient. He now takes everything Atticus says with great consideration and follows the rules like he should. He’s very protective over Scout and looks out for her and explains things to her when their father can’t. Jem grew into quite the gentleman towards the end of the book and I think his

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

When he was in Yeil Kindergarten, he had a best friend. He liked her because she listened to his stories, and play with him a lot. When he was in Gajung Elementary school, he was creative. So, he tried to do various activities at home when he had lots of ideas. His favorite class was 5-1 because he had many experiences during 5th grade. When he was young, he dreamed of being a doctor because he wanted to help people by curing them. Recently, he wants to become a medical robot engineer who makes medical robots that can help people. His role model was Schweitzer until 5th grade, but he later changed his mind. He thought a lot and finally decided his role model to a Korean professor "Bak Jong Oh" who studies about medical