How Did Jem Evolve In To Kill A Mockingbird

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“People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you’ve reached “adulthood”- J.K Simmons. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee we learn about a lot of people and the way they can evolve and change in a period of time.Throughout the story Jem has changed the most because he has learned to do the right thing even when others think it's the wrong thing, he knows to not believe in the old sayings, and he protects his sister from anyone or anything. First of all Jem has shown that he has evolved by snitching on Dill about having ran away.For instance, when “Dill's eyes flickered at Jem, and Jem looked at the floor. Then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood. He went out of the room and down the hall. ‘Atticus,’ his voice was distant, ‘can you come here a minute, sir?’Beneath its sweat-streaked dirt Dill's face went white. I felt sick.…Jem was standing in a corner of the room, looking like the traitor he was. ‘Dill, I had to tell him,’ he said. ‘You can't run three hundred miles off without your mother knowin.’We left him without a word (Lee 187-188).After this happened you could say that Jem has changed because he would never had done such thing if he was still a kid. Jem had not seen it as …show more content…

For instance, One time Atticus said you never really knew a man until you stood in his shoes and walked around in them" (374).This has shown that Scout has grown up because she can relate to the phrase of standing in someone’s shoes. She understands this phrase because when she had walked Boo home that day she stood on his porch and looked over the town of Maycomb. She now can see that Boo has been able to see everything from his porch without ever leaving and knows more about the people of Maycomb than anyone else would.Therefore, Scout understands what it's like to see things from someone else's point of