In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee proves the world isn’t what it seems to be through the maturation of Jem. Jem matures from the beginning to the end of the book. When Nathan Radley filled the tree hole with cement and Jem finds out what the tree hole ment to Boo Radley, Jem cried because he felt bad for Boo. Jem is maturing by feeling bad for Boo. “He stood there until night fall, and I waited for him. When we went in the house I saw he had been crying…”, Scout is waiting for Jem and Jem figured out the tree hole was Boo’s way of communication. Jem learns that the world is not what it seems to be, because innocent Boo Radley had only one way of communication out of his house and Nathan takes it away.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee proves the world isn’t what it seems to be through the maturation of Jem. Jem matures from the beginning to the end of the book. When Nathan Radley filled the tree hole with cement and Jem finds out what the tree hole ment to Boo Radley, Jem cried because he felt bad for Boo. Jem is maturing by feeling bad for Boo. “He stood there until night fall, and I waited for him. When we went in the house I saw he had been crying…”, Scout is waiting for Jem and Jem figured out the tree hole was Boo’s way of communication. Jem learns that the world is not what it seems to be, because innocent Boo Radley had only one way of communication out of his house and Nathan takes it away.