How Does Jem Change In To Kill A Mockingbird

In to Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how her character’s Jem and Scout go through changes in their lives. Harper Lee shows through Scout’s view how Jem changes and how each thing that the two of them went through influenced how they matured. Scouts view shows how the characters and people of Maycomb shaped them into who they were. What would Jem and Scout be without the people in Maycomb and what would they be without the events all around them? The people in Maycomb helped shape Scout and Jem into who they were at the end of the book because how big of an impact everyone has on everyone in a small town. Scout ended up on her way towards a proper lady by the end of the book and Jem found that the world wasn’t how a child had seen it. Jem realized that everything was not fair in that time period, an example would be of Tom Robinson's verdict at the end even though he had not done what he was accused he got prosecuted because he was black.”Judge Taylor was polling the jury;”Guilty...guilty...guilty...guilty”I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gipping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each “guilty” was a separate stab between them”( Lee 282). …show more content…
She shows how when they were first starting off in the book and they met Dill how all their curiosity towards what Boo Radley looks and who he was in the world. “Jem stood in thought so long that Dill made a mild concession: “I won’t say you ran out on a dare an’ I’ll swap you The Gray Ghost if you just go up and touch the house.”Jem brightened.”Touch the house, that all?”(Lee 18)At the beginning of the book Jem was just another kid, daring and impulsive but towards the middle and end that began to change he matured and this could be seen through his characteristic changes and also when Mrs.Maudie gave him a big slice of cake instead of a little cake to signify that he was growing