Jem Finch Maturity

Maturity is not a quality you see everyday from children. Most of the time children are running around playing with friends and family, asking silly questions, and even fulfilling their imaginations. This is the case for Scout and Jem too, initially at least. Scout is the son of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama. Scout’s brother is Jem and they have a fairly close relationship. In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Scout and Jem endure and encounter many life-changing events that cause them to mature, from experiencing racism and almost being killed to witnessing their father defend a black man accused of rape in the South during the early to mid 1900s. The theme of maturation significantly applies to the novel as Scout

In the book, “To Kill a Mockingbird” the children Scout, Jem, and Dill gained life experiences and mature as they face different problems. I am going to explain the way I viewed and still view children and adults in my environment, and how these people relate to the children in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Also, how some of my impressions changed and others didn’t change as I matured through the years.

While even Scout grows throughout the story she does not have huge changes. For the most part the characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird” have constant personalities. Many may even relate to Jem and his changing attitude through the story, his high and mighty idea of himself. Although some may not, instead scoffing at the young boy's behavior. One can only imagine what was going through Jems head as he aged, the period of time in which he was slowly maturing is a tough time in every childs

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

In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” there are numerous coming-of-age events with Jem and Scout, who are brother and sister. Scout is a different type of girl, she wears clothes that make her look like a tomboy, has her hair cut short to her shoulders and is innocent and naive. Although, as the novel goes on Scout doesn’t fully mature or understand all of it but does learn valuable lessons about life. Jem on the other hand is changing physically and mentally, he's growing up. Scout and Jem grow up in a time of racial discrimination and segregation in Maycomb, Alabama. Yet, have a father who shows them a disparate perspective of thinking.

In the book it says“ Jems getting older and she follows his example a good bit now”( Lee 116).What this quote is saying, is that if Jem does something reckless Scout would mimic him and do the same action.Just how babies learn how to speak by mimicking whatever the parents say. So if Jem was mature in the beginning Scout would be mature also.

Towards the end of the novel, Jem becomes more calmer. After all that has happened throughout the novel, he becomes more mature and understands many things that he didn’t understand before. Although, Scout remains a child in the end of the novel. Her perspective on life begins to develop. At heart, Scout believes in

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the children face different situations that result in their loss of innocence and the end of their naivety. Scout learns to stop judging people based on their class and race. Jem realizes that courage comes in many forms and that the actual courageous people are the ones who go through with something they are destined to fail. Dill is forced to deal with disappointment and neglectance due to his parent’s lack of love and time for him. Scout, Jem, and Dill experience events that cause their loss of innocence and lead to their understanding of the corrupt society they live in.

All children have an awareness of innocence during their childhood because they have not gone through many situations in their life. Nevertheless, every child matures once the sense of innocence is lost. The same can be said in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, misplacement of innocence is seen indicatively with the character of Jem. The interplay of maturation jumps in when Jem slowly develops the insight to understand many of the adult situations that his family faces. In the story a trial tears apart a town and the Finches are caught right in the middle of it. This event is just one occurrence that take place in the novel, forever changing Jem’s mindset. Harper Lee uses these events to develop the interplay of innocence and maturation to show how Jem progresses and changes.

Jem Finch had an exceptionally limited view of the truth of the world. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem was an innocent young boy that couldn’t grasp and understand the true importance in life. He had many coming-of-age experiences that allowed him to realize that the world was unfair and unjust. He understood racism, inequality and the true meaning of walking in another man’s shoes or skin. He learned these crucial lessons from his father, Atticus. Atticus did extraordinary things that many people in his community would never attempt to do. But, by doing those important lesson it allowed Jem to learn very important lessons that he is able to teach for generations to come. Atticus was a very prominent figure in the community of Maycomb that Jem used to understand the meaning of the world. In this essay, I will discuss Jem’s development into a young man by using various scenes and literary elements such as characters, dialogue and the different themes introduced in the book and movie.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird there are many scenes which feature Scout and Jem “coming of age” one such scene is in the trial of Tom Robinson scene, in which Jem and Scout learn what the real, prejudiced world is really like. In the Tom Robinson court case scene, Lee does a masterful job of illustrating the “growing up” of Jem and Scout. Throughout the several chapters in which the trial takes place, Lee highlights the children’s experiences growing up and learning about the prejudice and overall racism of the american, white South.

In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, many life lessons are learned and two innocent kids gain valuable experience. Those kids being, Scout, the main character and her brother Jem; throughout the novel Jem and Scout grow and mature in many different ways. Throughout the novel these two individuals learn many lessons which indeed help them to understand the world they are living in. First off Scout, also know as Jean Louise Finch, the narrator of To Kill A Mockingbird is very young at the start of the novel; being only six years old Scout finds herself struggling to understand the ways of many of the older children and adults.

To be honest Scout and Jem may be kids, but they know so much about how things work around in our world. They learned to not judge people from their aspects, like on how they used to think of Boo Radley as a bad scary man, but after the coincidences that happened with Boo Radley they actually realized that he was not much of a bad guy after all. For example, Boo Radley would place gifts in the tree and also when Boo

When a child grows up, they experience difficult situations that teach them to become an adult. Jem Finch ages from ten to thirteen, an extremely crucial time in a child’s life. His story is seen through the eyes of his younger sister, Scout. As Jem matures throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, his take on the world changes with him. His childhood fears desert him, his views on Mrs. Dubose change, and he realizes the importance of protecting the innocent.

Maturation is an concept that all children endure at some point in their lives, but very few know the true explanation of it. Within To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem both encounter the struggle between purity and innocence within the town of Maycomb and the courageous acts of the town’s citizens. Through Mrs. Dubose’s revelations and Atticus’ wise words, Lee’s novel commends that the true meaning of growing up is looking through a person’s appearance and instead seeing them as who they truly are, within the heart. This recurring judgement of the world that society has made it out to be, blinds the children on what it means to be maturely grown and stops them from witnessing the true beauty it can be, all behind the charade of evil and bitterness.