Scout And Jem's Changes In To Kill A Mockingbird

Throughout the book there are many events that mold and shape Scout and Jem. They change and mature more than any children should because they experience things that shouldn’t ever happen to a child. These events are usually results from what Atticus, their father, does as part of his job. Some of the ways they change are when Jem starts to hit puberty, Scout and Jem have to mature quickly because of the situations they are in, but they also stay the same by trying to do the same things that they did when they were younger children. My goal in this paper is to show the changes and similarities in Scout and Jem at the beginning and at the end of the book. In the middle of the book Jem hits the age where he starts to hit puberty and his view

So Scout tries to ask him what happened to him, but she is told by Cal what is happening to Jem to make him act this way. When the book started, Jem would always include Scout and liked it when she would hang out with Dill and him. However, towards the end of the book Jem was always annoyed when Scout would try to join them on their adventure. For example, “I just can’t help it if Mister Jem’s growin’ up. He’s gonna want to be off to himself a lot now, doin’ whatever boys do, so you just come right on in the kitchen when you feel lonesome,” (Lee 115). At this moment of the book Cal is explaining why Jem has been acting differently and that she can just come into the kitchen to hang out with her more often. This was a turning point in the book for Scout and Jem’s

Also in the 1930’s blacks were thought of as trash or the lowest of the low. So almost every white person would treat them like they weren’t even really a human anymore. The setting and time of the book To Kill A Mockingbird is set around this time in Alabama. In the story, there is a black man named Tom Robinson who is accused of raping a girl named Mayella Ewell. His chances of making out alive are very low so the judge decides to put Atticus on the case because he would have the best chance of convincing the jury otherwise. Whenever the town found out that Atticus had accepted the case, then Scout and Jem had to learn to be more mature than all of the other kids in school. Since they would all try to make fun of him because he was standing up for a black person or negro. Scout and Jem would have to be the bigger person and turn their shoulder; except, it only took Scout to learn this after she fought a couple of kids in the school yard. During the trial of Tom Robinson they also had a small glimpse of the what society was actually like. Their lives were significantly changed after they witnessed Tom Robinson get convicted for a crime just because of the color of his skin. According to the story, “I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: “Guilty...guilty...guilty...guilty…” I