How Does Jem Finch Mature

Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, introduces Jem Finch, a young boy living in Maycomb County, Alabama- also known as the deep south- during the 1930’s. This is a time when there was extreme amount of racial divide and prejudice. Maycomb is plagued with racism and when a innocent black man named Tom Robinson is put on trial for rape, the town begins to show its true colors. Jem’s father, Atticus, is the lawyer for Tom Robinson. Over the course of the novel Jem matures from being a child who enjoys playing games about a man who is rumored to be a ghost, to standing in the courtroom and witnessing his father desperately trying to get the jury to abandon their racist views and see Tom as not a black man but as just a man. The ideas of injustice are established when even with strong evidence against the accusations that Atticus has Tom is still sentenced to spend time in prison.

When you first are introduced to Jem he is characterized as any other child growing up in Alabama in the 1930’s.He enjoys exploration and he uses his imagination as a key tool of assessing the situation going on around.HIs
He for a while reads to Mrs.Dubose until her death during his time reading to her he learns of her drug abuse problems as well that her withdrawal from drugs is what caused her to be so rude towards Jem’s father when she called him a “nigger lover” during the time of the reading she would set her clock back so that Jem would stay and read to her longer since it kept her distracted from her craving for