How Does Jem Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem, or Jeremy Atticus Finch, is Scout's brother, and throughout the story he changes and matures a lot through a series of stages. First, you have the event that caused this, the trial, then you have the influence that it put upon Jem ,and lastly, how he had overall changed from the experience. After Tom's Trial, when Tom is deemed guilty and goes to jail, Jem is mad because he feels it's unfair. Jem realizes that his outlook on law was rather naive and that there's much more to it, and that his ways of thinking were childish as shown when he is speaking to Atticus, “How could they do it, how could they?’’ and Atticus responds, “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again, and when they do it- seems that only children weep.”(p. 285 Haper Lee). On the night of the trial, Miss Maudie talks to Jem as he sulks and gives Jem more of an understanding that Atticus’ job is deemed to give him results as such, “ There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.” (P.288 Harper Lee)

Jem was positive they would say yes, “Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard.”(p.238 Harper Lee) but him being wrong haunts him for a while as he needs time to think it off. Jem learns to look at the world in a different way instead of through a child's eyes as Atticus tells him “There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ‘em all away from you. That's never possible.” and this all influences him to grow up, because through a child's eyes, this type of world would never make