Jem And Scout Relationship

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Character of Jem and Scout.
So much has changed between the kids I mean the kids change like any other children. For example in the book Jem becomes more mature I mean he is still a boy but he is working his way into manhood. You know this through his reaction at the trial of Tom Robinson and also in the way he doesn’t want to play games with his younger sister. He obviously gets older but his emotions change and a lot of other things do too. Scout has changed a lot too, but in different ways. For example as she gets older she says that her brother starts to annoy her but that is normal for little sisters to think about their brothers. But all siblings get on each others nerves most of the time. But as she gets older she knows what's going

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