Analyze Jem and Scout's Relationship in to Kill a Mocking Bird
To Kill a Mocking Bird Essay | March 9
2011
| “As the novel progresses, Jem's relationship with Scout changes as he grows up and forges new relationships. He is also older so he understands more. Write an essay confirming that.”
Like branch to tree, like sand to sea, their bond is unbroken. They witness each other’s triumphs and failures; they share each other’s memories and sorrows, they have their inside jokes, and have their secrets __ secrets that are deeply kept within their hearts and minds. What is this extraordinary bond? It is the bond of brother and sister; a bond that is certainly unbroken. The 1961 Pulitzer winning novel, “To Kill a Mocking Bird,” by renowned author Harper Lee, portrays a lot about relationships, especially brother-sister relationships. The most significant relationship is the brother-sister relationship between Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout, and Jeremy Finch, better known as Jem. Even though they have a four year difference in age, they are very close. They live in the state of Alabama, in the county of Maycomb. They’re born to Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer and is known to be virtuous, and a mother who died when Scout was at the age of two from a heart attack. Mother figures in their life may include: Miss Maudie Atkinson, Aunt Alexandra Finch, and Calpurnia. In Maycomb, the county they live in, “…there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County,” (pg 3). As a result of this, they spend their time playing with each other, and playing with Dill, their friend who comes almost every summer to visit his aunt. Throughout this novel, Jem and Scout go through three different stages in their relationship, in which they sometimes drift apart. But even so, it is well-known that, “Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet,” Vietnamese Proverb. The first stage in Jem and Scout’s relationship is a stage
2011
| “As the novel progresses, Jem's relationship with Scout changes as he grows up and forges new relationships. He is also older so he understands more. Write an essay confirming that.”
Like branch to tree, like sand to sea, their bond is unbroken. They witness each other’s triumphs and failures; they share each other’s memories and sorrows, they have their inside jokes, and have their secrets __ secrets that are deeply kept within their hearts and minds. What is this extraordinary bond? It is the bond of brother and sister; a bond that is certainly unbroken. The 1961 Pulitzer winning novel, “To Kill a Mocking Bird,” by renowned author Harper Lee, portrays a lot about relationships, especially brother-sister relationships. The most significant relationship is the brother-sister relationship between Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout, and Jeremy Finch, better known as Jem. Even though they have a four year difference in age, they are very close. They live in the state of Alabama, in the county of Maycomb. They’re born to Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer and is known to be virtuous, and a mother who died when Scout was at the age of two from a heart attack. Mother figures in their life may include: Miss Maudie Atkinson, Aunt Alexandra Finch, and Calpurnia. In Maycomb, the county they live in, “…there was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County,” (pg 3). As a result of this, they spend their time playing with each other, and playing with Dill, their friend who comes almost every summer to visit his aunt. Throughout this novel, Jem and Scout go through three different stages in their relationship, in which they sometimes drift apart. But even so, it is well-known that, “Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet,” Vietnamese Proverb. The first stage in Jem and Scout’s relationship is a stage