Jem’s transformations in To Kill A Mockingbird One year ago my family and i were in a car accident that changed me to grow up a little more . I think my experience is similar to Jem’s because he experienced a lot of things in life and he had to grow up a little faster than most kids his age. The book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a young girl thoughts about her brother named Jem who had to learn a lot of hard things in life and how he also had to grow up fast, that also lead him into becoming more like his father Atticus . In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows us how much Jem changed from a child like kid to a more grown teen in order to be more like his father Atticus who is his role model . when the children attend church with Calpurnia, when Jem gets in trouble for destroying Mrs. Dubose’s garden, and when Boo Radley puts the blanket around Scout.
When the children go to church with Calpurnia Jem learns that colored people feel threatened by white people, which caused Lula to say “I want to know why you bringin white chillun to a nigger church”(119). This quote shows that colored people feel
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When Mrs.Dubose had past away Atticus and Jem talked about courage, Atticus had said to Jem “... i wanted you to see what real courage is instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hands. Its when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what… she was the bravest person I ever knew. ” (112). This quote show how Jem learned that courage is more than a man holding a gun i know this because the quote says “ I wanted you to see what courage is…” (112) this quotation proves that Jem learned bravery is not just a man with a gun but also someone that can do something when they but there mind to