Loss Of Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

Scout begins to notice the change in Jem’s personality and feels offended because she doesn't quite understand. On page 153 the text reads, “Over night, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so far as to tell me what to do.” Jem gets older and begins a long path of puberty. This, Scout does not understand yet. Jem moving towards a more adult like personality upsets Scout. Jem’s loss of innocence is a change but also begins to creates a new daily understanding for both Jem and Scout.

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.

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

Atticus decides to take on a highly controversial case in Maycomb, where Mayella Ewell, a 19 year old white female, accuses Tom Robinson, a black man in his thirties, of rapeing her. During the trial, Mayella, Bob, and the sheriff state that Robinson hit her on the right side of her face; however, Atticus contradicts the Ewell’s story by showing the jury that Tom Robinson only has one useful hand. Jem then whispers, ‘We’ve got him’” (Lee 202). Although, Maycomb’s society would never allow for Tom Robinson to win the trail, Jem’s innocent perspective enables him to believe that race does not come before the facts. Shortly after the trial, Jem says, “‘Doesn’t make it right. You can’t just convict a man on evidence like that-—you can’t’” (Lee 252). Jem displays an understanding of the racism and divisions in society within Maycomb in this quote. He knows that the conviction of Tom Robinson is bias and that the treatment of all blacks is unfair. Jem shows moral growth in this quote and has a more mature mindset about equality than most of the folks in Maycomb.

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

In To Kill a Mockingbird Jem is no longer childlike because he no longer thinks and acts a child and shows compassion for others and the truth. Jem comes of age because he now thinks and acts like an adult and can be considerate of others. The experiences showed him compassion for life the need to do the right thing and the understanding that not everything in life is

Jem and Scout’s relationship together is unbelievably strong. We find that Jem is extremely protective over his little sister and would do anything to stop her from getting hurt. Jem becomes more mature throughout the novel as you can tell when Tom Robinson is in court he cries and also he doesn’t want to play with his little sister but he will still do anything and everything he can for his little sister they have an unbreakable bond. She always wants his to play but he just goes outside and watches her and protects her. They both mature a lot throughout the novel. Scout matures through her experiences throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel she is all innocent and naive. Scout at the end of the novel lost much of her

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.”

As a mature person, Jem is more obedient and his decision-making skills are on a higher level. Like when Dill ran away from home and didn't want anyone to find out, Jem did the right thing and contacted an adult. Even though he knew his friends might not agree, "Then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood. He went out of the room and down the hall. “Atticus,” his voice was distant, “can you come here

Firstly, Jem begins to show his social corrections, changes, and potential. Jem originally feels bad because he can't understand others like Scout , his sister, or the situation that is going on with such people. He starts changing when he begins to adjust social situations the way an older teen would. Example; Jem grows older and becomes distant because of his brain power. Scout gets jealous, “What had began as a fist-fight had become a brawl.”(184) They did

The children in the book are maturing every day, like how Jem is learning not to be afraid anymore when in situations, he is maturing and learning to protect Scout when she is in danger. Scout is maturing because she is becoming more smarter and knows what is right and what is wrong. My claim would be Scout and Jem are growing older and starting to act more and more like an adult everyday. Scout never worried about Jem that much because she didn’t know that much when she was younger but know at her age she loves Jem and wants him to be save so she keeps asking “Is Jem dead?” on page 353-354.

Scout must face all these as she grows up and must learn the right way to deal with the problems that she will have in her life. “Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt…(Lee, 22)”. This quote portrays how, on the first day of school, Scout was exposed to altercations, one in which, made her react in an irresponsible way. Scout, with help from her father, will slowly acquire the mature ability to resist fighting back , and grow as a person. “ ‘You like words like damn and hell now, don’t you?’

Jem changes in the course of the novel because while we are reading the book from Scout’s point of view we see that his actions indicate that he is turning into a man. He starts off in the novel as a 10 year old and ages to 13, these few years changes a kid into a teenager, which is a big change. He changes socially, he changes mentally, and his feelings change emotionally as well as physically. Harper Lee has incorporated the theme of Maturity into the novel through the development of Jem. At the start of the book it shows that whatever Atticus would tell him he would do it. But near the end of the book when Tom Robinson is in jail and Atticus is talking to the men about to kill Tom and Scout runs in and Atticus tells them to go home and stays there with his hands on his hips not listening to his father, because he sensed that he wasn’t alright and that it wouldn’t be the right thing to just

A lot of people lose their innocence when they grow up, no one stays the same person. We all get introduced to the real world and sometimes it is not that great. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird Bird by Harper Lee, we get introduced to the Finch family were they take a long journey. Were Jem and Scout really see the real town from Atticus’s point of view, and were a loss of innocence begins to develop. Not all people stay innocent throughout their journey of becoming an adult, there is always an event that takes place and changes them.

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