Jem

Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is a bildungsroman because Jem, Scout, and Dill began to see the real world after the trial. To begin, Jem and Scout are white children of Atticus Finch. Atticus is a widowed lawyer. They live in a small town in Alabama during the Great Depression,…

Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem matures and begins to see what most adults in Maycomb county see, which is hate and racism. Earlier in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Jem begins…

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, we see Jem Finch grow up from a young, ornery boy to a now mature and intelligent young man. There are many changes that occur with him and many events that happen to help him mature. In my opinion, I think Jem’s process of growing up is an easy one for him as he learns many life lessons throughout the book. We watch Jem grow up throughout the book in many ways, but his main change started in part two of the book. Jem originally gets in trouble with Atticus…

when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” That point being, coming of age, Harper Lee uses coming of age in the town of Maycomb through Jem and Scout. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Jem and Scout’s coming of age to convey to her 1960s readers that even the young and innocent have the potential to do and be good contrary to the popular belief in a community, and can be equal with people even though they…

and maturity of brother and sister Jem and Scout. Jem, being the older and more responsible sibling, changes and adapts much faster than Scout. Jem starts off as a playful, naive 10 year old boy, and under the good parenting of Atticus, re-emerges at the end as a mature and responsible young man. One aspect Jem changes is his view on bravery, starting off with a childish concept of courage, and evolving to having a different form of bravery: moral courage. Jem also grasps the concept of Boo…

The book “To kill a mockingbird” ny harper lee is a literary work that sheds light on the darker side of american history. Set in the 1930s, prejudice based on skin color was very apparent even though you couldn’t legally say that it was. Slavery was outlawed and the constitution amended so that Black men should’ve been “equal”, this was certainly not displayed in the book . The story follows a motley crew of young children slowly maturing and finding out about the racial injustice that was…

Because of the differing views of the large number of significant characters in To Kill a Mockingbird, it is very evident that perspective influences the actions of these characters. From the beginning of the novel to the very end, both Jem and Scout have matured an immense deal. However, without their different views on the world, they would not be able to understand certain situations in a different way. Even so, both of the siblings together got themselves into situations where their point of…

direct comments to Scout about how she was not a lady and how she should shape up. For example, Mrs. Dubose said if Scout did not wear dresses and change her ways, she will be stuck as a waitress in the local cafe (Lee 134). Another example is when Jem and Scout would read to Mrs. Dubose, she would call Scout dirty (Lee 141). As pointed out by Dean Shackelford, Mrs. Dubose is an excellent example of narrow mindedness (Shackelford 5). Slowly, as the novel goes on, Scout displays signs of becoming…

Books are a good source of education and entertainment. A great book that has just that is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama. The main characters are Scout Finch, Jem Finch (Scout’s older brother), Atticus Finch (father of scout and Jem) who is an open-minded attorney, and Tom Robinson (african American man accused of rape.) The book contains discrimination, racism, and poor judgements. Although all of the bad stuff in the book there is yet great things…

book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the character Jem Finch does not get paralyzed by fear, his heroic personality faces fear head on. Even though Jem is just a maturing child, he shows a lot of adult traits that are revealed in TKAM. Jem shows passion, courageousness, and adventure throughout the novel. One adjective that associates with Jem is being adventurous. In the beginning of the book, and they frequently plays pretend, “Jem, naturally was Boo: he went on the footsteps and…