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.
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.
TKAM wp #1: Jem’s Maturation Throughout the story Jem shows a huge amount of maturation. The book starts when Jem is about ten years of age and still acts like a young boy. He loves to play with his toys, make up games to play with Scout and Dill, go on adventures, and many more.
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?’’
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.
Jem became more mature throughout the book from when he started. He stayed strong throughout his mother dying and he didn't snap when Scout asked him about her. He stayed up at night with her when she asked and told her that their mother was beautiful and kind. Jem was always someone Scout could look up to and somebody that she respected. She didn't mind the loss of her mother since Scout didn't have a relationship with her, but Jem did.
“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.
TKAM Jem #2 In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the main characters that matures and slowly changes is Jem, Scouts older brother. The author Harper Lee uses literary devices such as characterization and tone to show the reader the theme of development for Jem throughout the novel.
In the story To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many characters who have a large impact on the story. The two characters that jump out at me are Jem and Scout. They are siblings who seem pretty normal for the time period in which they live in. They were both raised solely by their father Atticus. Atticus is a lawyer and knows a thing or two about discipline.
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.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a very engaging and very enlightening for all ages. His book tells a story about a family in the 1930’s. I chose to do a coming-of-age scene for Jem and Scout. I think the best scene is the forest scene when both Jem and Scout are attacked. In this essay I will follow how both Jem and Scout come-of-age in.
Have you ever fought with your siblings, but now you do not, or maybe you still do? The two characters in To Kill a Mockingbird do not get along in the beginning and then finally get along and help each other towards the end. The theme of Growth and Maturity is depicted in To Kill a Mockingbird through the change in Scout and Jem's relationship as they experience traumatic events. In the beginning of the novel, Scout and Jem are lacking maturity and Jem wants nothing to do with Scout.
