Atticus Conflicts

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a young girl named Scout growing up, seeing the world as it is, and having to deal with a plethora of conflict. In chapters 12-15 of the novel, many things happen. Beginning with chapter 12, Scout’s brother Jem seems to have matured, and their father, Atticus, had to leave for an emergency legislature meeting, leaving them with their attendant Calpurnia. Calpurnia decides it a good idea to take them to church with her, and when they get back Aunt Alexandra was waiting for them. Aunt Alexandra informed the children that she will be staying to be a positive motherly role model for the children. Then in the chapter after those two, both pairs of siblings got into squabbles, with the younger

In the final chapter of the 4, Atticus takes the car out to the courthouse and spent the night with his client, with the children following him silently, and find a mob threatening to hurt Atticus, and talk them out of the notion. With the formalities of summarizing the events out of the way, the main conflicts of the chapters come into question.
The most difficult conflicts Scout must deal with is the conflicts at home, namely the sudden disconnect she has with her brother. One reason why this is the most challenging conflict for Scout is that days prior her brother treated her like an equal, but then stopped. Another reason that this is a key conflict is because it hits her with something that she had never needed to deal with before. For example, after some time had passed from the Ms. Dubose incident, “This change in Jem had come about in a matter of weeks… Overnight, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so far as to tell me what to do. (Lee 150)” this shows that Jem had undergone some sort of paradigm shift after Ms. Dubose’s death, and thought himself more