Jem Finch Monologue Analysis

Also as the lynch-mob arrives to murder Tom Robinson, Atticus refuses to compromise and stands his ground. This event shows Jem and Scout how brave their father is to have stood up for his client the way he does without means of violence and without using guns. up to this point The children believe that it is a man’s gun that makes him, they now see courage in a whole new light. Thanks to her father, Scout gained the courage to confront Mr. Cunningham the same evening and is successful in causing Mr. Cunningham to call off his Old Sarum mob. She talks to Mr. Cunningham on a personal level “Don't you remember me, Mr. Cunningham? I'm Jean Louise Finch. You brought us some hickory nuts one early morning, remember? We had a talk. I went and got my daddy to come out and thank you. I go to school with your boy. I go to school with Walter; he's a nice boy.”(chapter 15, Lee)

Throughout the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem Finch grows out of his childish personality and into a responsible, brave, young man through the hardships he faces. Jem's hardships lead him to mature and change by causing him to abandon his interests in Boo Radley, by making him realize the racial discrimination in the world, and by giving him the strength to put himself between his sister and danger.

Since Jem enjoys doing "manly" things, Scout does them as well for she does not know any better and she wants to gain Jem's respect for her. As time goes by, Jem starts to mature himself, from an irresponsible boy to a sensitive, gentlemen, Mister Jem; he is always Scout's adored older brother. As Scout gets older, her Aunt Alexandra decides to try and get Scout to act more like the Jean Louise that she wants her be. The only time that Aunt Alexandra was around for a long period of time was during the trial when she came to live with the Finches when Atticus was the lawyer for Tom. Even though she disagrees with her brother, Atticus, with his way of raising his children, especially Scout, who should be taught to be a lady believes that in time, she will "come around"

“Jem says I was. He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch. Jem says my name’s really Jean Louise Bullfinch, that I got swapped when I was born and I’m really a-”

In the beginning of the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” written by Harper Lee, the most interesting character as of thus far is Jem Finch. Jem is the elder brother of the narrator of the story, Scout Finch. The brother and sister duo spend most of their time outside of school together. Although they are roughly four years apart, they enjoy spending a lot of time together and they are almost always together during the first part of the novel. Throughout the book, Jem exhibits bravery, curiosity, and brotherly actions, all of which provide a very entertaining character for this novel.

I went on with my story quickly, before he could interrupt me again. "'Nother time I met a guy, an' he was in pitchers. Went out to the Riverside Dance Palace with him. He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon's he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it." I looked closely

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 was the only one who saw him and was scared out of his mind, you could see it all over his face. All of a sudden out of nowhere, Bob grabbed a hold of Jem and started hitting him and throwing him around in the woods. Then I saw Bob grab Jem’s arm and break it. The scariest sound was released when that happened, and I jumped. Once, he had finished everything that he wanted to do to Jem, he went to Scout trying to squeeze her to death. I had had enough of Bob beating on the kids, so I jumped in. We went back and forth for quite a while, until I pulled a knife and stabbed him. However, I made it look like Mr. Ewell fell on the knife. Jem had been knocked unconscious, so I grabbed him and carried him home. I was terrified of what Atticus would think about me helping him, would he think I did this to him or would he thank me? I didn’t want to take any chances so I backed into the corner behind the door to be out of sight...until...Scout saw

Two formidable entities waged war in Maycomb that night. Streaks of red and blue collided, battling over supremacy of Miss Maudie’s house; the flames seemed to be winning. Jem and I were much too enthralled with this skirmish to heed any attention to the role Atticus had assigned us. We huddled together futilely for warmth and cursed the cold that we had rejoiced less than a day ago. But the struggle was quickly pushed to the back of our minds as the more peculiar of the two events to take place that night began to unravel.

I am reading To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 208. This section is about Jem getting in trouble with Mrs. Dubose, Jem and Scout also find out some secrets about their father. In this paper I will be evaluating.

Jem Finch, I think has changed a lot during this book, from keeping secrets to telling his father whats going on. In the beginning of this book Jem was more of a child, like when he would play with Dill and Scout. Toward the middle of the book Jem became more grown up, he started to be very moody. “I just can’t help it if Mister Jem’s growin’ up. "He's gonna want to be off to himself a lot now, doin' whatever boys do…”(Page 115) This quote is when Calpurnia had to explain to Scout why he wasn’t any fun anymore, Scout was a little confused but decided to leave him alone. The point when Jem broke the rules of childhood was when he told Atticus about Dill under the bed “It ain’t a snake, it’s somebody”(Pg.139) This quote is when Jem went to grab a broom because Scout thought she felt a snake, and to find that it was really Dill, Jem then goes and tells Atticus.

Jem, in the beginning of the book , used to want to try and scare Boo Radley out of the house so they could see how much of a big scary and terrible monster he was. As time passed, Jem grew out of that, and became a role model for Scout and Dill. Dill is Scout’s “permanent fiance”. Near the ending of the book, Scout is in a play, as a ham, and when they walk home, it’s later at night, so it’s obviously dark out. Mr. Ewell promised Atticus after the battle in the courthouse with Tom Robinson that he would make Atticus pay for almost getting Mr. Ewell into jail with the evidence he provided in court. Mr. Ewell attacked Jem and Scout while they were on their way home, “ ‘Then all of a sudden somethin’ grabbed me an’ mashed my costume… think I ducked on the ground… heard a tusslin’ under the tree sort of… they were bammin’ against the trunk, sounded like. Jem found me and started pullin’ me toward the road. Some-Mr. Ewell yanked him down, I reckon. They tussled some more and then there was this funny noise-Jem hollered…’ I stopped. That was Jem’s arm,” (Harper Lee, 270). as you can see, Jem protected Scout with all of his strength, even if it meant he could’ve lost his own life in the

Once upon a time, I had a very close friend that I’ll call Jem. When I was trying to discover who I was, struggling with self-hatred, and enduring the stress of switching schools, Jem was there, quietly cheering my on from the sidelines. Without her, growing up would’ve been even scarier than it actually was.

Bein’ caught in the schoolyard by Scout did not make it any easier to accept Jem’s invitation to eat dinner with him an’ his family. I didn’t know why Scout decided to rub my nose in the dirt, but she did. Maybe it was because Scout got in trouble when she tried to inform Miss Caroline about Maycomb. She tried to help me in school, but she got mad at me since she got in trouble. This wasn’t a very auspicious moment for Scout, an’ she blamed me for this. I didn’t ask for her help, but she wanted to do it.