Jem is growing up and almost thirteen. He is starting to act like a teenager because he is very hungry, moody, and always telling Scout to leave him alone. While he is excited to become more mature, Scout is still a child. (Coming of Age.) Calpurnia also calls him “Mister Jem.”
Jem really matured of the course of the book. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem is a dynamic character because he experiences change in the book. The Reason I picked Jem to write this report on was because I remembered that the book talked about him changing all the way through the book, also I saw that he had become a very mature young man. Even in the end of the book he did immature things that make you wonder if had really matured or not.
As the book progresses Scout is having constant difficulty with her lack of maturation. Many problems are starting to occur in the book, and they are problems that she just doesn't understand yet. Scout is still young and doesn’t quite understand why she isnt told everything, and why she isn’t just as mature as Jem. “ That’s because you can’t hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. It’s different with grown folks, we-”
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem, or Jeremy Atticus Finch, is Scout's brother, and throughout the story he changes and matures a lot through a series of stages. First, you have the event that caused this, the trial, then you have the influence that it put upon Jem ,and lastly, how he had overall changed from the experience. After Tom's Trial, when Tom is deemed guilty and goes to jail, Jem is mad because he feels it's unfair. Jem realizes that his outlook on law was rather naive and that there's much more to it, and that his ways of thinking were childish as shown when he is speaking to Atticus, “How could they do it, how could they?’’
On the walk back home, Jem heard noises behind him and Scout. They thought that must be Cecil Jacobs. Suddenly, someone rushed to them. Jem started to fight against, and ask Scout to go. Finally, Jem’s arm got seriously hurt, and the person began plaining to attack Scout.
Jem Mature or Immature? Kids are thought to be immature and do not begin to mature until they are young adults, but Jem proves this wrong. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper, Lee Jem and Scout must deal with people insulting their father when he takes a case defending a black man. Although Jem is only twelve years old by the end of To Kill a Mockingbird, his experiences in the novel lead to him growing up and changing his views on many things.
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird being matured does not mean age, it means sensitivity, manners and how you react. Jem moves into teenage years and seeks to protect Scout. While Jem grows he becomes matured and a mindful boy who adores his father. Jem is a person who can identify right or wrong. For example, when Dill sneaks in the bedroom from escaping his home.
The Innocence of a Mockingbird When you are a child the people around you have a huge impact on the way you grow up and see the world as you get older. For example, in the story To Kill a Mockingbird, there is a young boy named Jem who is son to a lawyer named Atticus. Jem starts off very immature and ignorant because he doesn’t understand the seriousness of peoples actions; as time goes on and he learns more about the people of Maycomb, the small town they live in, this allows him to be more mature and be able to make the right decisions when it comes to the way he treats people and who he associates himself with. He will start to learn how to be a good young man and how to lead himself to respect. Harper Lee shows coming of age in the story
In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Jem grows from a little boy to an intelligent young man. Throughout the book, he discerns many things that shape his personality. As Jem grows, he learns how bad society is and that not everyone is perfect. Fortunately for Jem, this ends up helping him and he finds out that Atticus is a hero and that he should look up to Atticus. Through Atticus and the trial, Jem loses his innocence by learning about prejudice, bravery, and that the justice system is crippled.
In chapters twelve through fifteen of, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee, life is becoming worse for Scout as more and more complications arise. Jem is becoming more distant with Scout as he grows older, and Atticus has to work longer due to the Tom Robinson trial. Therefore, Calpurnia takes Scout and Jem to her colored church, where they are received strangely. We learn that Tom Robinson has been accused of raping Bob Ewell’s daughter, and Aunt Alexandria enters their lives. She immediately begins to control the children’s lives with her strict ways, to Scout’s disliking.
Many philosophers say; “The most challenging part of growing up is letting go of what is comfortable, and moving on to something unknown.” This quote strongly applies to the maturity process of Jeremy “Jem” Finch, a lead character in Harper Lee’s award-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Jem struggles to understand his role in society as the picturesque facade of his sleepy southern town is destroyed, revealing the darkness underneath the surface. In this coming-of-age story amidst of a race war, Jem navigates the hardships of maturity. He is aided by the guidance of his father, who plays an integral role in the conflict of the small town as the court-appointed lawyer of an African-American man falsely accused of assaulting a white
“One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people” (Ailey- brainyquote.com) In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee one of the main characters named Jeremy Atticus Finch, referred at as Jem, has a very important coming of age moment. Jem realises that the world is not constantly nice and friendly, he realises that there are people out there with prejudice and racism and this hits him blunt. Jem comes of age in many ways throughout the novel however the biggest event is where he realizes how wrongly people are being treated. This can be understood by the reaction Jem has after it is revealed that Tom Robinson is convicted.
In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, some of the characters come of age and realize the morality of the world. Harper Lee uses literary elements to show how the characters have come of age. There are many sections in the book that show how the characters “come of age”. In this essay I will discuss the sections of the book that demonstrates the characters “coming of age”.
Atticus is showing Jem how to be courageous by basically being the definition of courage, which is doing something that frightens one. This is a very severely scary circumstance because they are threatening Atticus and Tom’s life. But, Atticus remains courageous anyway. Moreover, Jem and Scout were at a school event and they started walking home in the dark by themselves. They heard something around them but did not know what or where it was so they kept going home.
Will the decision to turn the $2 million dollars over to the George Steinbrenner be beneficial or will donating it to a charitable foundation be better suited? This is the question we were faced with when reading on the concept of Utilitarianism. This question can be answered either way, but most importantly this concept allows us to make those decisions and determine the positive and negative outcomes of our moral conscience. With any decision in life there will be positive and negative outcomes such as: studying or not studying, blowing people off, or a difficult decision as a Commanding Officer in the Navy or Marine Corps.
