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How Does Jem Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

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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. At the beginning of Chapter 12, it starts right in by showing Jem physically maturing but shows he is annoyed by Scout also: “Jem was Twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted” (153). Jem wants nothing to do with his sister. Scout is immature and their relationship is not that good. Scout “pesters” Jem all of the time. It is not just Scout being immature Jem is too. He is moody and Scout is annoying him. This is before they ever experienced anything that was touching. …show more content…

They really start to mature after it and begin doing nice things for eachother. In chapter 23, Jem does many nice things for Scout for example when he gives Scout candy out of nowhere: ‘“Have a chew Scout.”’ ‘Jem dug into his pocket and extracted a Tootsie Roll’(301). The Tom Robinson case really stuck with them and they realised that they should be kind towards everyone. The court case made them more mature and nicer towards each other. The .diversity and racism in their town made them come to realise that everyone is equal and should be treated the same even if they look different than

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One of the fights Jem stops is the one between Scout and Walter. The way Jem stops the fight between them was by pulling Scout off of Walter saying “You’re bigger’n he is” which is on page 30 and displays how he begins his maturity. Jem has also invited Walter to his house when he fought with Scout because he knew the Walter didn’t have anything to eat. Jem begins to show respect once he had a pleasant conversation with Walter on the way Atticus does with him at the dinner table. Jem normally wouldn’t show his respect before, but then it is shown throughout his way to maturity.

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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.”

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At the start of the novel Jem and Scout's relationship together is amazingly solid. We find that Jem is to a great degree protective over his little sister and would do anything to prevent her from getting hurt. A case of Jem's protective side is when Scout discovers gum in the tree hole and Jem immediately tells her to 'spit it out right now!' followed by telling her to 'go gargle – right now, you hear me?' He talks about all the gossip of the town, for the most part about Boo Radley and we see that he has an extremely distinctive imagination.

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After that Jem starts to mature. This is when he stops saying he’s too old for stuff and actually meaning he’s too old to be doing childish acts. He starts doing courteous actions to help other people. I thought it was almost mature of Jem and scout to ask questions when they go to negro church which shows they want to learn about what’s going on in society. He starts changing the way he sees things in society.

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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?’’

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Scout started a between her, Aunty, and Atticus and it was causing more stress with Atticus and when Jem overheard Jem told Scout to leave Aunty alone. When Scout figured Jem was telling to do something she didn’t like it very much but Jem got angry and told her “now I mean it, Scout, you antagonize Aunty and I’ll-I’ll spank you” which is something an older adult would do like Atticus. (184) Now that Jem is different and more mature, he tries to calm down Scout in his own way so the situation doesn’t get bigger. By doing this Scout thinks that Jem is now telling her what to do and when she throws a fit he tells her she’s going to hit her.

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To begin, after the fire at Miss Maudie’s, Jem learns that Boo Radley put a blanket around Scout, he decided to come clean. “Jem seemed to have lost his mind. He began pouring out our secrets right and left in total discretion for my safety, if not his own, omitting nothing, knot-hole, pants and all”(Lee 98). This demonstrates Jem’s maturity because he did not have to tell Atticus everything about what they have done to Boo Radley, but because he felt bad because they had the wrong impression of Boo he told Atticus everything. The second time is after Jem looked like he would bother Boo Radley and Atticus told him not to Jem decided that he would leave Boo Radley alone.

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