Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, she tackles social concerns. This story is about a black man named Tom Robinson, who was wrongly accused of rape by the Ewells. Atticus, the best lawyer in Maycomb, was appointed to take the case as a result him and kids had to take a lot of abuse. Harper Lee’s father was a lawyer so she chose to base Atticus off him. Lee creates Atticus as a just citizen to portray social concern, racism, in Maycomb. Lee then creates a completely different charter from Atticus: Bob Ewell. He’s a racist and ignorant man, who uses all the privileges of being white, and he is an antagonist, showing the social concern of racism. This force Jem to mature from a child to a young man.
Firstly, Lee creates Atticus as a just citizen to portray to social concern,
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When he tells Scout about Boo Radley he uses his childish imagination to come up with a picture of Boo“ Boo was about six and a half feet tall, judging from his tracks: he dined on raw squirrels and any cat he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained”(13). Jem uses his childish imagination to come up with an image for Boo. He guesses his height after seeing the track Dill showed him. He says that Boo eats raw squirrels and any cat he would catch and this is how any child would imagine a phantom. Later in the text, he show maturity when scout was going to kill the bug. Jem stops her “because they don’t bother you”(300). Here Jem shows maturity by stopping scout from killing the bug as the bug has don nothing to scout. Killing it would be like killing a Mockingbird. Since Jem has seen Tom Robinson unfairly lose the case, Jem doesn’t want anything like that to happen to anyone. By stopping scout from doing this injustice, he transform into a dynamic character. Jem was forced to mature after seeing the injustice in the