Essay On Jem A Hero In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the book To Kill A Mockingbird Jeremy Atticus Finch shows that he is heroic. There are numerous ways he shows this. He keeps calm when in a dangerous situation. Jem also is brave and courageous. Jem puts other first and he protects others. Those are some ways Jem is a hero. There are a lot of definitions of a hero. Jem’s characteristics are similar to the characteristics of a hero. Jem is a hero but he is a different hero then most would expect. Jem is not your normal hero. He is not like Superman or Batman. He is different he does not going around stopping bad guys. He does other stuff such as protect people from dangerous situations.
What is a hero? On Dictionary.com a hero is “a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character.” Bill Murphy says five characteristics of a hero are courage, selflessness, humility, patience, and caring. Murphy gives examples of “Incredibly Heroic Leaders”. The person Murphy used for the word courage was Marine Cpl. Kyle Carpenter. Murphy explains how

On page 64 Jem came home from retrieving his pants. In the book it says “There he was, returning to me. His white shirt bobbed over the back fence and slowly grew larger. He came up the back steps, latched the door behind him, and sat on his cot. Wordlessly, he held up his pants. He lay down, and for a while I heard his cot trembling. Soon he was still. I did not hear him stir again.” Scout heard Jem trembling which could mean he was scared or that he was crying but he did not want to bother Scout and or scare her. So he kept quiet so he would not scare her with what happened when he went to go get his pants. On page 65 through 66 Jem starts to tell Scout what happened the night he went back. Jem told Scout how his jeans were folded and someone sewed them. It scared Jem because only Scout knew he was going back to get his jeans. He did not know who else would have