How do Jem and Scout change during the course of the novel? How do they remain the same? During the course of the novel, both Jem and Scout changed. Jem and his sister Scout are exposed to a lot of changes that in the end prompt them changing the way they perceive those around them and how life is in general. 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. This is indicated where he reveals to Dill about Boo Radley. "He dined on raw squirrels and any cat he could catch, that’s why his hands were blood-stained — if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time". Despite the fact that Jem is protective about Scout and hangs around with her a lot, he dislikes …show more content…
He states himself as a grown-up "it's different with grown folks, we..." which demonstrates a high level of maturity that must follow. Demonstrating that he has grown up is the when he begins to reduce the time he spends playing games, like the Boo Radley game and take up reading instead. Scout reveals to us that he had "outgrown the tree house" and how his "maddening superiority was unbearable these days, he didn’t want to do anything but read and go off by himself" This shows he wants to be more of a gentleman and follow the ways of Atticus, his