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.
According to Katie Johnston, (2014) the working poor are “waitresses, department store clerks, and fast-food workers. They clean office bathrooms and airplane cabins, care for the elderly, and serve hors d’oeuvres at high-end fund-raisers. One in five workers in the state, the majority of them over 25, make $12 an hour or less. As employers squeeze costs, these low-wage earners frequently can only get part-time work without benefits, some with irregular schedules that make second jobs and child care arrangements difficult. They have no protections from having hours cut
As the quote says “Jem wanted Dill to know once and for all that he wasn't scared of anything” we could see his behavior in that quote, he was trying to impress everyone by being the person he isn’t. Finally, with Jem getting into many fights with his sister, is hot-headed. He argues with Scout regarding her ways of expressing herself, mainly in tomboyish ways. This can start outrage on Jem’s side, thinking that his preference of Scout’s way of life is inferior to Jem’s outlook on life in general. Jem can end up saying things like: "Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home—I declare to the Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!"(Chapter 6 Page 24)
Scout is a very intelligent girl from birth and shows it throughout the novel. She learns to read before she even starts school, which angers her teacher due to an advantage over the other students. Scout is as intelligent as she is because of the way Atticus raised her. For being so young, she comes to understand big concepts quickly. For example, Atticus references the killing of a mockingbird early in the novel and Scout brings is back in conversation in the second to last chapter.
It is hard to understand something if you haven’t experienced it. She may be younger and a different sex but Scout doesn’t realize that she is actually beginning to change. (69) When Dill comes over to play one summer, Jem tells of how Scout is becoming more and more of a girl. She may be too young or putting in the back of her mind that she is growing up. The struggle to understand is the step before being
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about the child hood of a young girl named Jean Louise Finch. It is about the struggles she faced growing up with racial circumstances in the Southern United States. She is often her referred to as Scout Finch through the novel. Scout lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a small town where everybody knows everybody.
The name of the novel being explored is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the 1950's in Alabama Maycomb during the racist times towards the blacks. Throughout this topic the focus is on the main character/narrator Scout (Jan Louise Finch). This essay will explore Scout's character and the negative and or positive influence she has on other characters at the start, throughout and at the end of the text. At the beginning of the novel 'To kill a Mockingbird' Scout is a naïve, has a very tomboy like personality, is a judgmental five year-old girl who was oblivious to the cruelty's of the outside world.
Scout is very obviously dedicated to her brother Jem. He often criticizes her for “Acting like a girl”. For this reason Scout grows up far away from the typical way daughters are raised. She plays outside in the dirt, dresses in overalls, and hates dressing like a typical lady. Scout’s very slight change into a lady is majorly affected by her own Aunt Alexandra.
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.
The events that occur in the book display all the bad and horrible things in life one has to eventually go through, like racial injustice and learning the truth about people. Since Scout is so young, she experiences adult situations that develop her understanding of life. With Jem, Atticus, Cal, and other citizens of Maycomb helping her get through, she molds into a grown up little girl. One event that had a major impact on Scout’s maturity was Tom Robinson’s
This is different from the younger version of Jem where he would be happy and help Dill stay hidden. Scout also gains individuality a lot throughout the story. Even though she is usually with Jem or Atticus. After Tom Robinson was taken back to prison, he thought he would not be able to succeed in his second trial. He decided to climb the fence and was killed doing so.
The 1930’s in Maycomb county was a blur for Scout but in that time she had experienced a lot of racism, power and corruption, and growing up. That’s just how it was in Maycomb back in those times. In the profound book To Kill A Mockingbird Scout, a little girl living in Maycomb county in the 1930’s goes through a series of a whole lot in her childhood, along with her childhood companions, Jem and Dill. Through Scout’s childhood she starts picking up “traits” from the townsfolk and starts to witness the evils of racism, power and corruption, and starts to grow up to see both pain and pleasure. Society in this time pulls Scout toward the real themes of the 1930’s, the society she really grew up in.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is being peer pressured by Jem and Dill to join them in playing the “Boo Radley Game.” “Dill said, ‘Jem, you and me can play and Scout can watch if she’s scared.’ I was fairly sure Boo Radley was inside that house, but I couldn’t prove it, and felt it best to keep my mouth shut or I would be accused of believing in Hot Steams, phenomia I was immune to in the daytime.” (Lee 51)
Ignorance. Hate. Prejudice. These ideas were widely spread throughout Maycomb County, as well as the whole country. Yet, Jem and Scout Finch managed to embody innocent wisdom, understanding, and acceptance.
In this period of time Maycomb suffered through the ‘’Great Depression’’ (Economically in difficult), but Scout & Jem’s dad Atticus, was a prominent lawyer who had a solid reasonable salary to hold his family economically. The novel’s storyline follows the significant incidents that occurred to Jem’s & Scout’s childhood. Scout’s voice is the narrator of the book, and the expressions used to describe numerous situations in the book may have been interpreted in Scout’s perspective. In this novel, Jem starts his age of nine in the beginning of the story as a young boy and his sister Scout starts five turning six.
