At the beginning, Jem wants to be a lawyer like his father. He admires what his father does because he believes that the justice system always works the way it's supposed to, with the guilty always being convicted and the innocent always being proved so. So when Tom Robinson is convicted for a crime he obviously did not commit, Jem loses his faith in the innate goodness of the world he previously saw and his faith in the justice system, all at once. He refuses to even talk about the court case, going as far as to yell at Scout when she mentions it, which shows how truly shaken up the whole situation had left him. Overall, Jem's perspective is forced to become a more mature one due to the extreme circumstances he encountered so early on in his life. His beliefs in goodness are shattered by the reality that people's prejudice can stop them from doing the right thing, changing his attitude towards the world utterly and causing his entire character in To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, to change along with
At the beginning, Jem wants to be a lawyer like his father. He admires what his father does because he believes that the justice system always works the way it's supposed to, with the guilty always being convicted and the innocent always being proved so. So when Tom Robinson is convicted for a crime he obviously did not commit, Jem loses his faith in the innate goodness of the world he previously saw and his faith in the justice system, all at once. He refuses to even talk about the court case, going as far as to yell at Scout when she mentions it, which shows how truly shaken up the whole situation had left him. Overall, Jem's perspective is forced to become a more mature one due to the extreme circumstances he encountered so early on in his life. His beliefs in goodness are shattered by the reality that people's prejudice can stop them from doing the right thing, changing his attitude towards the world utterly and causing his entire character in To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, to change along with