Throughout the novel, Harper Lee displays various prime themes that array the segregation and setting in Maycomb, a fictional town in the heart of Alabama. This unforgettable story of a childhood in a quaint town and a watershed that changes everything, is compassionate, dramatic, whole hearted, and courageous. The coming of age symbolizes one of these many themes throughout this novel and is crucial to how the characters come together. Jem Finch is one of the significant examples that resembles the coming of age and matures over the course of 3 years. During the events in chapters 1- 31 in To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem has signifficantly grown from a childish, playful boy that he was from the begining of the novel, to a more calm, composed
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Least to say, everyone within the "ordinary" people share many of the same beliefs and behaivors as the Finch family. They all live in homes on Maycomb's residential street, where the fathers hold steady jobs and the families attend the local Mathodist and Baptist churches. This goes against what Scout says because at her age she thinks of everyone as equally a person, no matter what the color of your skin is or where you stand on social classes. However, only Jem would see this difference rather than Scout because of his knowledge and understanding of maturing into a young adult. In the final analysis, Jim Finch is a primary example of the coming of age in To Kill a Mockingbird. He ages from 10 to 13 over the course of the novel, which is a period of great change in any child's life. He has matured from a pre-pubescent boy to a young adult whose responsibility is much higher than it ever was before. The way the definition of bravery changes over the course of the story is important, just like the changes in Jem's maturity. The shift that occurs has to do with age to experience as well as, the meaning of cruelty, racism and prejudice; in conclusion, Jem has not only learned from his past, but will continue to mature through his
Least to say, everyone within the "ordinary" people share many of the same beliefs and behaivors as the Finch family. They all live in homes on Maycomb's residential street, where the fathers hold steady jobs and the families attend the local Mathodist and Baptist churches. This goes against what Scout says because at her age she thinks of everyone as equally a person, no matter what the color of your skin is or where you stand on social classes. However, only Jem would see this difference rather than Scout because of his knowledge and understanding of maturing into a young adult. In the final analysis, Jim Finch is a primary example of the coming of age in To Kill a Mockingbird. He ages from 10 to 13 over the course of the novel, which is a period of great change in any child's life. He has matured from a pre-pubescent boy to a young adult whose responsibility is much higher than it ever was before. The way the definition of bravery changes over the course of the story is important, just like the changes in Jem's maturity. The shift that occurs has to do with age to experience as well as, the meaning of cruelty, racism and prejudice; in conclusion, Jem has not only learned from his past, but will continue to mature through his