“You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird). This story takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in 1960’s where segregation is happening. In around the 1930’s people of color didn’t have the same rights as white people. White people assumed that all people of color lie, disrespectful etc. Jem is the oldest child, Scout in the youngest and the narrator of this book. In the beginning of the book, Jem is ten, then in the course of time, he turns twelfth. Jem real name's Jeremy Atticus Finch. Jem develops in many ways like being mature and being tolerant. Harper Lee uses setting and secondary characters to illustrate Jem’s moral growth in the
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“ ‘Yes,’ said our father, when Jem asked him if we could go over and sit by Miss Rachel’s fish pool with Dill as this was his last night in Maycomb” (67). Later in the scene, Dill, Jem, and Scout start to go to Radley’s place, “Dill and Jem were simply going to peep in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley” (69). More importantly, Jem lied to Atticus and felt unnecessary to tell him of the place he was going and he didn’t think to himself to do the right thing. Later on in the novel, Jem developed in a more gentleman way and making his own decisions that convert him into being mature. For instance, in chapter fourteen, Scout thought that there was a snake under her bed so Jem goes on and checks, he actually finds Dill under the bed. Jem first response to this is to tell Atticus, but Scout and Dill think differently. Scout narrates as, “Dill’s eyes flickered at Jem, and Jem looked at 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” (187-188). Jem didn’t hide a secret from Atticus and made him more mature about Dill hiding
“ ‘Yes,’ said our father, when Jem asked him if we could go over and sit by Miss Rachel’s fish pool with Dill as this was his last night in Maycomb” (67). Later in the scene, Dill, Jem, and Scout start to go to Radley’s place, “Dill and Jem were simply going to peep in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley” (69). More importantly, Jem lied to Atticus and felt unnecessary to tell him of the place he was going and he didn’t think to himself to do the right thing. Later on in the novel, Jem developed in a more gentleman way and making his own decisions that convert him into being mature. For instance, in chapter fourteen, Scout thought that there was a snake under her bed so Jem goes on and checks, he actually finds Dill under the bed. Jem first response to this is to tell Atticus, but Scout and Dill think differently. Scout narrates as, “Dill’s eyes flickered at Jem, and Jem looked at 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” (187-188). Jem didn’t hide a secret from Atticus and made him more mature about Dill hiding