In the book To Kill a Mockingbird consists of bildungsroman which mainly focuses on Scout growing up but as well, it includes about Jem learning to become a man. Jem advances from a ten year old child to a young gentlemen. This is shown when he is stopping fights, showing a newfound respect for the people around him and becoming trustworthy as some of the ways he shows his maturity in this bildungsroman. By chapter three Jem’s maturity begins to be demonstrated.
At the start of the novel Jem and Scout's relationship together is amazingly solid. We find that Jem is to a great degree protective over his little sister and would do anything to prevent her from getting hurt. A case of Jem's protective side is when Scout discovers gum in the tree hole and Jem immediately tells her to 'spit it out right now!' followed by telling her to 'go gargle – right now, you hear me?' He talks about all the gossip of the town, for the most part about Boo Radley and we see that he has an extremely distinctive imagination.
Just after seeing him for the first time in a while, Hiram’s relationship with his father immediately changes and instantly becomes stronger. On the other hand, Scout’s relationship with her brother, Jem, develops in a completely opposite way. In the beginning their relationship was strong, but turns the end of the book Jem becomes are mature and distant from Scout and even acts rudely turns her as shown in the book by “ Jem was suddenly furious. He leaped off the bed, grabbed me by the collar and shook me. ‘I never wanta hear about that courthouse again...’”
Scout comments that, “Dill said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me” and “he only grew closer to Jem” (Lee 5). In this quote, Sout is jealous of how much time Dill and Jem are spending together. Jem’s jealousy can be seen earlier, when he says “spit it out right now”(Lee 1). In this quote, Jem is not only acting as an older brother to Scout, but he is also jealous that Scout did not give him any gum.
Scout worrying about Jem, tries to stop him from going to the Radley house, she then get’s interrupted by him saying that’s Scout’s becoming more like a girl every day. Jem being a boy, is saying that Scout becoming more like a girl for her
Scout is pretty much being told to leave Jem alone. He starts to get older and he did not want Scout getting in the way of him and his friends. Telling Scout constantly that it is different at school, and they would not interact but they would play like
In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, young Scout and her brother Jem begin to realize that the world may not be as pleasant as they might have thought it once was. At different times, both Scout and Jem start to learn that what they had always been told may not be necessarily true. Scout and Jem mature in very different ways; Jem starts to mature with age and experience, such as when he started middle school. He was easily annoyed with Scout but more aware of the world and more understanding of his father and was highly impacted by the trial, more so than his younger sister Scout. But Scout’s maturity began the night after she returned home from the mob at the jailhouse, she then realized the danger her father was in, and that the men that she stood in front of and talked too, were there to kill Tom, and were willing to hurt her father to get to him.
Jem shows maturity and growth throughout the novel. In chapter two of the book, it is Scout’s first day of school and she has a disagreement with the new teacher Miss Caroline. Scout let the teacher know she made a mistake trying to offer Walter Cunningham lunch money when he doesn't have any.
Jem’s view of Scout is shown very clearly in the above quote. Both Jem and Dill are bossing Scout around and even threaten her. Scout can only participate in activities with her brother and friend if she is listening to orders from them. We can infer that just because Scout is a girl she is being excluded.
Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout 's perception of courage drastically changes their behavior as they mature. They learn a lot about courage throughout the novel from their father Atticus and what they learn from him influences their choices and opinions. Although Jem is older than Scout, they both experience change in their behavior. At the beginning of the novel, Jem is still a young boy. He is defiant towards Atticus, he plays all the usual childhood games with Scout and Dill, and he engages in the younger children’s obsession with Boo Radley.
41, and Atticus finds out. Scout gets worried that Atticus might know that what they were playing was related to the radleys, and tells Scout that she “was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.” this is one of the biggest examples of gender in the book, and shows that being a girl is the highest and worst insult, even amongst the children. And a few pages later, Scout says that she tried to avoid Jem and Dill because she was called a girl once and didn't want to be called a girl again. This really cements how much of an insult it is to be called a girl.
Scout’s relationship with Jem is comparable to the relationship with Atticus. First, Scout’s relationship with Jem is comparable to the relationship with Atticus because scout looks up to them. Scout looks up to Atticus when she needs help with questions she doesn’t know. An example of Scout looking up to Atticus is when she asked Atticus about what was happening in Germany with Adolf Hitler and the Jews. This is comparable with Scouts relationship with Jem because Scout also looks to Jem for guidance like Atticus.
When Jem says this it aggravates Scout because she thinks that Jem and her are equals, and everything he does and he knows she does as well. Scout isn't old enough yet or mature enough to realize that she can’t do everything Jem is able to do and she doesn’t know everything that he knows. Her immaturity leads her to doing many things that if she were older and more experienced would know it’s not polite or right to say and do some of the things she does. As the book progresses she does show slight advances in her maturity level, but Scout still hasn’t grasped the fact that she is younger and will not comprehend everything as well as all the people in her life that are older and more understanding of the world around them. She still talks back to anyone who tries to tell her what to do even if it’s for her own benefit.
He wants Scout to change who she is to fit his idea of what being a woman is about. In Jem’s mind, women and girls should not be opinionated and “rough”, they must be feminine and frail.
Fairly early on in the book, Scout tells us about how Jem told her to go find girls to hangout with, “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with”(54). In this example, Scout had just finished trying to convince Jem that Atticus knew they were making fun of Boo Radley. The quote shows how Scout is expected to act like a girl and hangout with girls, because girls shouldn’t play rough with the boys. In another example, Aunt Alexandra tries to change the way Scout acts,
