To Kill A Mockingbird Jem's Transformation

On her very first day of school, Scout had been condemned by her teacher for already knowing how to read. Miss Caroline, Scout's teacher, had told her: "Now tell your father not to teach you anymore" (17). Scout took Miss Caroline's words to heart and thought that if she continued to go to school, she would have to give up her nightly reading sessions with Atticus. Scout advised Atticus: "But if I keep on goin' to school, we can't ever read anymore..."(31). This shows Scout's naivety as she focused and was fixated on such a small detail that other people wouldn't give a second thought about. Scout was willing to obediently listen to anything Miss Caroline told her as if it was the law. Unexposed to the evils in the world, Scout was so innocent and naïve, and therefore, she did not realize or even think of going against what Miss Caroline had instructed. Being naïve on the fact that not everyone in the world is always truthful and follows all the rules, Scout was infatuated on a moot

Jem’s relationship with Scout changes as he matures in the story. He goes from a fellow conspirator and playmate for his sister to her protector, resembling Atticus more and more with every chapter. In chapter 4, they are playing a game enacting what they perceive Boo Radley to be like. Atticus interrupts the game and inquires whether the game was about the Radley’s or not. Jem lies, saying no in response. In page 40, Scout yells in confusion and Jem remarks, “Shut up! He’s gone in the living room; he can hear us in there.” This shows his mischievous behaviour and the fact that he is still

on going to the jail when he senses that his father may be in danger.

One way the main character, Scout, learns that before they judge someone they need to walk in that person’s shoes and understand them is through her first grade teacher. In the beginning of the book, Scout was starting school, she was going into first grade and she had a new teacher named Miss Caroline. Miss Caroline wasn't from Maycomb, she was from Winston

In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout Finch is growing up in Maycomb Alabama. This is a place where she and her brother Jem are able to roam around within calling distance from Calpurnia. Scout is still learning about how she needs to act and keep things to herself throughout this coming of age story. Throughout the story of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout’s ignorance protects her when she is young. But as she morally develops her realization of Maycomb becomes stronger and that ignorance starts to fade away.

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.

Like the book had been stated jem was only 10 years old when this book started. Now most 10 year olds have almost no knowledge of the world. This was expected but as the book represents jem shows us this multiple times. The first big example in the book was when scout had found the a piece of gum in the tree hole, the text states, “Don't eat things you find scout.” This is showing that Atticus has taught him at a very young age or Jem caught on to the idea dn knew it was bad. Another example in the book was when Jem wanted to contact Boo radley or Arther. Jem knew,”If i had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning then my funeral would have been held that afternoon.” He had made sure they went together just in case something bad were to happen.

Unfortunately, her father is in a lot deeper than she thought he was, unable to make him understand what he was thinking. “You neglected to tell me that we were naturally better than then the Negroes, bless their kinky heads, that they were able to go so far but so far only, you neglected to tell me what Mr. O’Hanlon told me yesterday.” (Lee 247). To Scout it’s a shock and one she never expected to come from her father. Atticus was the only person Scout trusted since she was little. With Jem no longer around, Atticus was the real connection the past and her youth. For this to happen, it does not sit well with Scout in any way, and she wants to fight it, not accept that it’s true. “I’ll never forgive you for what you did to me. You cheated me, you’ve driven me out of my home and now I’m in no-man’s-land but good-there’s no place for me any more in Maycomb, and I’ll never be entirely at home anywhere else.” (Lee 248). Scout, now thrown off her center due to what she believes and can’t even call the town where she grew up home. Atticus sent Scout to college in Alabama, and that too seemed against her will on what she wanted to do. Calling Maycomb no longer home is another huge change because she no longer feels welcome, something she felt when she first arrived in town. “Aunty, you may have issue a communique to the effect that I am going so far away from Maycomb

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."Jem has changed from a childish little boy to a 12 year old young adult and is able to make smart decisions.

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

At the beginning of the story, Jem and Scout was young , childish and lacked the ability to see things from other's point of view. From the children's point-of-view, their most compelling neighbor is Boo Radley, a man that always stay in his house and none of them has ever seen. During the summer , they find Boo as a chracacter of their amusement. They sneak over to Boo house and get a peek at him. They also acting out an entire Radley family. "Jem parceled out our roles: I was Mrs. Radley, and all I had to do was come out andsweep the porch. Dill was old Mr. Radley: he walked up and down the sidewalk andcoughed when Jem spoke to him. Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the frontsteps and shrieked and howled from time to time"(chapter 4). Eventually , Atticus catch them and order

Sometimes Atticus lacks respect and does not show and tell him what is really going on. " ` They were after you weren't they?' Jem went to him. ` They wanted to get you didn't they?' Atticus lowered the paper and gazed at Jem. `What have you been reading?' he asked. Then he said gently, `No son, those were our friends.' `It wasn't a- a gang?' Jem was looking from the corners of his eyes. Atticus tried to smile but it didn’t work. `NO, we don't have mobs and that nonsense in Maycomb (pg. 146)." However, the group was really there to tell Atticus off for defending Tom. There are several evidences of great respect between them however. One was when Jem told Atticus about Dill's appearance under Scout's bed. He showed that he had respect for telling Atticus the truth. "." Throughout the middle portion of the book, many sides of their relationship shown through different

In addition, Jem abandons all of his childish morals: “Jem looked the floor. 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 a minute, sir?’” (p.187-188). Dill, Jem and Scout’s best friend, ran away from his home and came to the Finch’s house. Jem has broken “the remaining code of our childhood” by telling Atticus about Dill, rather than keeping it a secret. He has matured past his childhood years, and realizes that sometimes it is best to involve adults.

Despite the early introduction to this lesson, Scout doesn’t fully understand it, or at least learn it, until the very last chapter when she finally meets Boo Radley, and stands on his porch thinking about the compilation of events which make up the book, from Boo’s point of view, “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.” This shows the understanding Scout has finally had of the way people are perceived and the way they actually are. It shows that she has learnt what many