How Does Jem Finch Change Your Perspective

Many people are set in their ways and look at everything the same way throughout their life; however, as life goes on, people change their views as the world around them changes. Yet, too many people think that you can not change your mind or perspective. That once you start to preach it, you are stuck with your perspective forever. Between the battle between the LGBTQ+ community trying to get more rights and the old battle reoccuring in today 's timeline between african americans and white, many perspectives are looked down as unjust and many people are too scared to change their mind and to face ridicule. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, many people are born into a life and perspective that all black people are inherently bad. This

As Jem Finch grows up, he changes his perspective changes. He teaches- or tries to- Scout to see the other side of the story. In the beginning of the story, when Dill was first introduced, Dill had suggested doing a make believe game of Boo and his family. Jem agreed to go along with the game and took immense pleasure in partaking in it. As Jem grew up, he began to mature and his perspective began to form and take a different shape. He began to teach Scout the rights and wrongs of life. “Overnight, it seemed, Jem had acquired a set of alien values and he was trying to impose them on me…(Lee 153),” through this quote, Harper Lee tells the change of perspective that Jem has undergone. By showing in the beginning of the story that Jem is making fun of others around him and now him trying to teach Scout what is right and wrong in life, Harper Lee expresses that his change of perspective is warranted and is not bad as other may think. Throughout Jems life, he learns that the arguments he had made are coming from a single minded perspective and not a logical form of many perspectives, he learns that not all other perspective are

When one changes their point of view, it may not always be seen as bad; to change a point of view is not final but a journey to new surrounding aura. Harper Lee sees the change needed in the world and implements that in To Kill A Mockingbird by giving a revelation to Scout on the Radley porch, by giving Jem changes of heart and perspective as we see him grow up, and by giving Uncle Jack Finch a well needed lecture upon his single mindedness, expanding on his perspective. In this time, one may need to look at things another way to solve a solution or reach a verdict. The racial climate in the 1960’s is tense and one sided and yet the racial climate in the 21st century is still tense yet not a one sided. Now a new battle arises, the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. To get rights to marriage and to adopt a child. Many are still stuck in their perspective of the LGBTQ+ community and many are willing to change their mind and their perspective to give others a safe place to