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Examples Of Jem Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird being matured does not mean age, it means sensitivity, manners and how you react. Jem moves into teenage years and seeks to protect Scout. While Jem grows he becomes matured and a mindful boy who adores his father. Jem is a person who can identify right or wrong. For example, when Dill sneaks in the bedroom from escaping his home. Jem directly says Dill has to tell his parents where he is. Maturity comes in different ways either expressly or physical. Therefore, Jem is a caring old brother and son. Jem is an imaginative, courageous and curious young adult who is also bossy and stubborn at the same time. Being able to want to take care of his sister while in his teenage years and wanting to be lawyer just like his father “I thought I wanted to be a lawyer…” (Lee 50), leaves a thought on the reader in what Jem’s future is going to look like. However, as stubborn as Jem is he knew the words to say whenever people were mocking his family, “hold your head high and be a gentleman” (Lee 105).It displays that Jem approves his father by doing what he says they should do all the time “hold your head high”. …show more content…

For instance the night the lynch mob shows up, Jem is the one who leads to the kid’s downtown to check on Atticus. But then again Scout is the first one to get directly involved with them. “Ran as fast as I could to Atticus.”(Lee 153), “I kicked the man swiftly.” (Lee 154). “Kicked the man” it clarifies bravery within Scout that no matter how old a person can be you can still stand up for the ones close to you. Yet Jem was trying to stop Scout as he knew something would happen. “Swiftly” it demonstrate how swift everything happened like “ran as fast”. Adding to that it changed the novel making Scout the brave one out of the three

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