How Does Lee Show Braveness In To Kill A Mockingbird

The classic, Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper E. Lee was published in 1960. The book places place in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s, about Scout and her older brother Jem. Together, with their friend Dill, learn about the cruel reality of judgement and racism, through the trial of Tom Robinson. Where Tom [a black man] is charged of raping a white woman and is being defended by Atticus Finch— their father. Jem is an average twelve-year of boy; he respectful, he knows right from wrong, and has an undying love for football. Jem demonstrates the characteristics of braveness, imaginative and curiosity throughout the novel.
Jem shows curiosity when Dill, Scout and him try to make Boo Radley come

They decide it would be fun to do so, when Jem was playing he was enacting what he thought happened. Jem also exemplifies this characteristics when he describes Boo Radley to Kill, he uses very precise details. “Six and a half feet tall, dined on raw squirrel and cat, hands were bloodstained, long jagged scar across his face, missing and yellow teeth, bug-eyed, and drooled most of the time” (Lee 16). He uses this exaggeration of Boo’s theorized appearance to emphasize to Dill not to go near the Radley place. Jems actions demonstrates this characteristic when he plays the game “Boo Radley” with Dill and Scout. During this game they used all of the stories they heard to create a dramatized play of Boo stabbing his father. When he tells stories like the story about the hot steams, and why Boo is locked up, he uses elaborated details to bring the story to like. He does this because of the small dormant town, they use stories to pass time and to have something to do. Jem is a very animated person and has a very exciting imagination to create stories to tell to Scout and

The fact that Tom Robinson is clearly innocent based on evidence, but is still charged guilty because he is African American; it's hard for Jem to think about. Atticus tells Jem that after a while he will learn how to deal with it and will become conditioned to cruelty when it happens later on. Or as Mrs. McQueen said it “he will slowly be desensitized to inhumanity as he experiences more of life”. Jem also exemplifies this characteristic when he says to Atticus that it isn't fair that Tom is innocent, but everyone is so blinded by the stereotype. “It was Jem's turn to cry. His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd” (Lee 212). Everyone else knows that this was not a fair trial but Jem is the only one emotionally affected person in the room. Jem is a very emotional person, but he is also a child who has not seen the worst of the world. He also becomes sensitive when Mrs. Dubose is bad-talking Atticus and the whole Finch family. He responds in a rude way, by talking back because he took it personally. Jems actions demonstrate this characteristic when he reacts to the news Atticus delivers to him about Mrs. Dubose's death. Even though he really did hate, and she was rude, strict and grumpy. Jem was a little shaken up by her death, but he was moved by her goal to die freely. He shows that he is distraught when he fidgets with the flower she left for