Literature
To Kill a Mockingbird Epilogue
Fifty Years Later Fifty Years have passed, and Maycomb, sadly, still had its usual disease. People still treated the blacks unfairly. It’s not as bad, but still not what Atticus hoped it would be. Maycomb is still a tired, old town with the same families. As for Jem, Dill, and myself, we were the change that Maycomb needed. I lived in Miss Maudie’s house. Sometimes I think the only reason she left me her house was because I told her I would take care of her flowers.
Across the street was my childhood home which was now Jem’s. Jem was a lawyer, like Atticus, and almost as good too. He always fought for the ones who he knew was innocent: people like Tom Robinson. He believed in the same principals as Atticus. Jem was a lot like Atticus, but no one could ever be the exact same as Atticus. Jem was close though. Jem married his high school …show more content…
The same families will still live in the town and racism is always be an issue. Even today, the blacks still feel discriminated. So that’s why I think that Maycomb still has discrimination. I think that Scout will live in Miss Maudie’s house because she grew up at her house and Miss Maudie reminds me of Scout.
Jem lives in the Finch’s house because I think that Atticus would want to keep it in their family. As Jem grows up, I think that he is going to be like Atticus because he was Jem’s male role model.That’s the reason why I had Jem become a lawyer and try to remove the unfairness in a courtroom. I had Jem marry his high school sweetheart because I think that Jem wouldn’t marry someone outside of Maycomb and it’s cute. I thought it would be nice to keep the name Atticus in the Finch family so that’s why Jem named his son after Atticus. I wanted Jem to have a boy and girl because I wanted it to be like Jem and Scout’s childhood and the kids to grow up in the same