Jem's Transformation In To Kill A Mockingbird

During the 1930s many awful events shaped how people lived and how kids were raised. Many people say that the teenage years are the years that shape someone’s life. Children who lived in the era of To Kill a Mockingbird learned many hidden aspect of their society. In the coming-of-age novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Jem is a boy who is adolescent during the book. The book portrays many different problems like injustice, crime and violence, and racial segregation which are subjects that everyone saw on a daily basis. Jem, is the character that undergoes the biggest transformation in the novel now that not only has he had to mature to be a good big brother for Scout but he changes physically and emotionally thanks to puberty.

To begin with, Jem shows some acts that any big brother would do. He is a kid that doesn't like to be with his little sister which shows how his mind hasn’t changed and still firmly believes how awful is to be with a …show more content…
Not only did he doesn’t like the way society and the court were treating Tom Robinson, but he was worried and tried to help his dad so that justice could be found. “It’s not time to worry yet,” Atticus reassured him, as we went to the dining room. “We’re not through yet. There’ll be an appeal, you can count on that. Gracious alive, Cal, what’s all this?” He was staring at his breakfast plate.” (Chapter 22) This could be related to how he wanted to be as his dad, a lawyer, which meant that he had to know his cases and act like him but one can see how this case affected him emotionally in a way he never had felt before. “I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: 'Guilty...guilty...guilty...guilty...' I peeked at Jem: his hand were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each 'guilty' was a separate stab between them.” (Chapter