What Does Jem Learn In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

“Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.” Beautifully said by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross To Kill A mockingbird written by Harper Lee is novel about a white family in the 1930s. With Jem and Scout being young at the beginning of the novel they were living in their own world but when their Dad had to represent a black man then they start to learn what life is really in the south at that time. Jem is the older of the two her is 10 years old at the beginning of the story.

Atticus is a very trustworthy man who wasn't anything different whether he was at home or in public. In the To Kill a Mockingbird both Scout and Jem and Scout grow and gain more maturity by understanding how the world is with all the mistreatment and how not everything said should be worth your thought and effort.

Jem as the novel goes on he is learning some of the best lessons in life. Jem is very confident after the hearing in the court. He thinks there's no way that Tom could lose. He doesn't understand how crazy it would to have a black man win against a white women. “And we’re gonna win, Scout. I don't see how we can”. (Lee 202) Jem is naive to the racism in Maycomb. He did not under the rights the white had over the blacks and how awful blacks were treated.He had never really been a part of a situation that made him have to learn those facts. In the years of his 10 years he was living as part of a nicely white privileged and educated family with a strong lawyer father and that a father who tried hard to keep them away from the harsh world for as long as he could. Jem stayed and watched the case and waited for the final hearing. He watches Tom lose. He takes it very hard and doesn’t understand how he lost

Jem and Scout had matured as they grew older and as the novel went on. Jem lost some of his childhood innocence with learning hope the world in the 1930 were to those of a different race and when he thought for sure Tom would win and he didn’t and brought him to tears. Scout learned how she doesn’t need to fight everyone who says something to her. She can simply walk away from the person. They did that from the words said to them and certain experiences that have gone through. These lessons are important because at some point Jem would have to learn this and now that he knows that now he knows how to act and how to treat those of different race and not treat them wrong. It is very important for Scout to learn this because someday this could have gotten her in trouble but know that she knows she won't. And for every time she walks away she will start to feel stronger and the urge to fight will soon go