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 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.
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.
Athena Strecker 1. Scout is a young girl who is filled with hope and innocence. She is very defendant of her family and can be a bit rude, but is very intelligent and outgoing. Jem is Scout's older brother.
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.
To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel about the progress of children opening up to the real harsh world they live. Jem is one of the children opened to the world by age. Jem matures from a naïve boy to an enlightened adolescent. In the first section of the novel, Jem is a bright boy who gets thrown into the real world.
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.
Maturing is something everyone goes through in life whether you go through it early or a little later in life. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows a lot about maturing. Growing up in a small town in Maycomb, Alabama where life was a lot more different from today, you mature much different and in different ways. Jem is one person who matures through the whole story and makes realizations about people around him, including his dad, Tom Robinson, and Mrs. Dubose. Jem goes into the story thinking his dad is just some old man but as he gets older, he realizes there is more to his dad.
Jem’s Development Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird It is a known fact that throughout life, as children grow, they also develop and mature into young men and women. The same thing is true for children in books. The book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’is an excellent example, using Jem as it’s model, on how children mature more and more as they get introduced to the adult world, and how they develop to fit into this new world. Throughout the book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, Jem grows and matures from a child to a young adult.
According to the University of California at Davis, during the 1930’s “roughly 2.5 million people left the dust bowl states” due to the desolate conditions. The story The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, shows the hardships of the fictitious Joads family who left Oklahoma, during the dust bowl, in search of more opportunities. Throughout the story, Steinbeck claims that the “elite” control the money and power and use it for the wrong reasons, while the migrants are given less and have greater needs. In the beginning, Steinbeck describes the elite landowners as harsh, ignorant and altruistic.
After reading To Kill A Mockingbird I believe that Lem is the character who grows the most throughout the book. At the beginning of the book both children are naive children however Jem has a leg up on scout due to age. At the end you see Jem turn into a young adult while scout is still a naive child. Aunt Alexandra, Scout and in a way Tom Robinson help Jem evolve throughout the book. After the trial Jem has a new respect for life.
In To Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee portrays the idea that no matter how old one is or what happens, everyone is always growing up; this becomes clear to readers when the events that occur in the story cause Jem and Scout to act a
