Throughout the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” there are several points in which you see characters grow, develop, and change but throughout the entire novel I believe that Jem changes and loses his innocence the most. From first meeting Jem and Scout to the end of the novel watching the brutal Tom Robinson trial to continued backlash from the community a big change can be seen in Jem from the beginning to the end. Jem even though he did some things he shouldn’t have hisself early on in the novel changes so much towards the end that he breaks childhood code and tells on Dill for running away. Jem changes gradually and slowly throughout the novel and although it may not be obvious he is a completely different person by the end.
The first point in the novel where the change in Jem is really noticeable is when he loses his pants on the
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This is the first time that Jem being disobedient towards Atticus’s demands is shown and not covered up when a mob of people show up to the jail to lynch Tom Robinson and Jem, Scout and Dill approaches the situation and refuses to leave defying Atticus’s order I believe is a shock and Jem making a statement that he is no longer “innocent” because before he had always obeyed Atticus or attempted to please him. Jem by this point had developed his own mind and opinions on what he thought to be right or wrong as it states in the text,” I was getting tired of that, but felt Jem had his own reasons for doing as he did.” Throughout the trial of the Tom Robinson cases there were several points at which Jem was angered by the blatant disrespect shown to Atticus and Tom Robinson and the every one especially Robert Ewell acted like Tom Robinson was a living person and was just an