Jem Coming Of Age In To Kill A Mockingbird

“You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them” (Lee 237). Atticus always tells Jem and Scout to never judge people until you take a walk in their shoes. For a while, Scout couldn’t fathom the idea of seeing things from another person’s perspective. Not because of her selfishness, but because her innocence, and immaturity. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a small, ordinary town in Maycomb, Alabama; although, for the main characters Jem and Scout Finch, life is everything but ordinary. The book takes place during the early 1930s, and goes on a three-year journey through the fascinating lives of the Finches. The coming of age is an occurring theme in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee through the following
Jem and Atticus have an argument, as a result, Jem then hides in his treehouse: “which was reason enough for Jem to spend the following Saturday aloft in the treehouse. Jem sat from after breakfast until sunset” (Lee 24). This shows that Jem uses the treehouse as his safety blanket in hopes to find comfort in the situation. Throughout the entirety of the book readers can see Jem grow up, Scout says, “Jem had outgrown the treehouse, but helped Dill and me construct a new rope ladder for it” (Lee 122). This proves that Jem has aged, and has essentially grown out of the things that caused him to feel comfortable, ultimately showing the coming of
At the end of the book the town ghost, Boo Radley, finally makes an appearance when he saves Scout and Jem from an ignorant evil man. As Scout stands on Boo Radley’s front porch, she shows a conspicuous change in development when she recollects her past years in Boo Radley’s perspective. This shows that she has not only matured, but did something people should all do; she has found a way to step out of her mind, and into the mind of a man who has been discriminated against for his whole