My Hero's Journey-Personal Narrative

Atticus is guarding the jailhouse to make sure no one hurts Tom Robinson before his trial, when he is approached by Walter Cunningham and his fellow goons. Atticus shows his bravery by standing his ground for what he believes is right in front of his son. When Scout lashes out to her father’s side, Jem holds onto her and tries to stop her from interfering. Then Jem refuses to go home and stands up for his father’s side although the odds were against them, while trying to protect his sister from harm. In page 152, chapter 15, Scout says, “... but from the way he stood, Jem was not thinking of budging.” This shows us that Jem has matured from the boy who would do anything if dared, to a young man who can barricade his emotions and proceed with reason in difficult situations.

          Continuing,  as Jem is seeing things from others point of views, he grows in his maturity which leads to him to act as adult. An example of this is when Scout and Aunt Alexandra, who is very determine to keep a good reputation to the family name, get into an argument regarding the

The first change we see in Jem is when he is able to see the good in people despite what others have said about them. “I wanted you to see something about her - I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a

He constantly decided how cold it was and how he didn’t like to be as cold as he was. Inevitably, the psychological factors wore his mind and soul down to make him only think how cold he was. By the end of his situation, any warmth, whether by the sleep of death or fire, was all the man could think about. Without any imagination to focus his thoughts elsewhere, the man helped himself collapse into his final doom.

To begin, Jem at the beginning of the book didn’t care about what he was doing/saying and the consequences that came with it. He just did whatever he pleased while trying

Another trait Jem shows throughout the story is his control over his anger. This is a trait

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

”(187-188). In this scene we see Jem finally taking a hold of a serious situation and bringing in an adult to take care of it properly. The simple fact that he “broke the remaining code of our childhood” symbolizes him being one step closer into

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

During this time, he had to go inside Jem’s home and later communicate with people, verbally and

Rubbing his face and beating his hands only temporarily helped his circulation. After he got his feet wet, they froze. His fingers "seemed remote from his body" because he could not move them. The most obvious clues that the man took in were internal.

In the story, To Kill a Mockingbird there is a young boy by the name of Jem and he is

Suddenly the figure turned around and padded away and a bright light, brighter than anything that He had seen before, engulfed them. It disappeared moments later and the figure was

When he was free of the building, he held up the node and clicked it. The human body melted away, fizzling into the aether, leaving the disgruntled programmer with only a blinding handful of pale blue light. Content, he floated across the street and zipped upwards into the sky.

He was glad none of the others had heat vision when his eyes turned back towards them, otherwise he'd be toast. Five times over. Well, if he wasn't invulnerable to most things. Including heat vision.