Jem And Scout's Relationship In To Kill A Mockingbird

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If you live a life acting like you’re all grown up and not having the childish aspect of life, was that a life really worth living? Would you do it over again to have that childlike play in your life? Jem and Scout, in To Kill A Mockingbird developers all stages of childhood. In the story, Harper Lee portrays to the readers the relationship between Jem and Scout, and how they grow from a childish relationship to a more mature and civil relationship.

In the beginning of the novel, the readers see that Jem and Scout’s relationship is more of a childish relationship and has more of a jovial attitude. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, one see’s Jem and Scout encounter a moment of them acting a lot like children, and spending quality time together. On page 87, Scout tells the readers about the snowman that Jem and
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Foremost one sees that in the beginning of the novel that Jem and Scout relationship was more childlike and they did not care what others think, this was their more rebellious stage. To continue the readers then see a drastic change between Jem and Scout on how Jem in the beginning of the novel did not want Scout to act like a girl yet later in the novel we can see that Jem then tells Scout to be a girl because he wants to take on that brotherly role. In fact at the end of the novel Jem and Scout then become more close and excel in their relationship, the begin to tell each other more and Scout then begins to look up to Jem more. Ultimately, the readers can then understand how Jem and Scout grow from a more sophisticated act but then grow out of that and become to the realization to how they should act and how mature they should be. Therefore Jem and Scout did always have that little bit of childlike play inside them and in tough time go to the childish act to relax

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