To Kill A Mockingbird Wisdom Quotes

Bravery in the Wisdom

Do you remember when you were a kid and everything seemed terrifying, but as you got older you became braver the more you knew? To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel during The Great Depression that follows the Finch family's experiences. In her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem Finch, appears to readers as a frightened boy, but throughout the novel, as Jem experiences many terrifying moments and many different adult-like scenarios, he begins to lose his childlike “brave” actions, showing how experience in different scenarios help develop a braver older mindset.

As the novel begins, Jem Finch appears to readers as a frightened boy. Lee directly implied Jem’s childish fears in the first paragraph of her book, saying, “When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury” (3). As the quote states, early in the book Lee expressed where Jem’s childish fear started and how it eventually grew into more child-like brave actions. Lee portrays Jem as a frightened boy when, “Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house, slapped it with his palm, and ran back past us, not waiting to see if his foray was successful”(15). This event describes Jem's childlike behavior to be perceived as brave by Dill and his little sister Scout. Jem was a

“Then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood” (159). Lee expressed how Scout felt about Jem growing up and becoming more mature by showing Scout’s disagreement with Jem’s decisions. Not only did Lee express how Scout felt but she also expressed Aticuss’s feelings. “Atticus said no, Jem was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible” (Lee 131). Atticus is letting Jem grow into a better, more mature, and braver person. The child-like bravery in Jem has slowly matured Jem to lose that child-like