How Does Jem Change In To Kill A Mockingbird

The characters in To Kill A Mockingbird change a lot throughout the book.Some changed for good and others for bad but in my opinion jem has changed the most. Jem has changed the most in this book because he becomes more mature and starts seeing boo radley for who he really is.

One of the ways Jem changes is by becoming more mature.Jem proves that he is maturing when the kids find Dill under Scout's bed and the first thing Jem says is “let your mother know where you are" and tells Atticus that he was there.This shows that Jem is starting to think like an adult and didn't care about breaking “the remaining code of childhood”. Even though it would mean Scout and Dill getting mad at him he still did it because he knew it was the mature thing to do.This shows that Jem cares more about doing the right, mature thing and less about having Scout and Dill mad at him.

Jem also starts to see Boo Radley as who he really is and not as how the rest of the town makes him seem to be.In the beginning of the book jem was terrified of Boo and the radley house, but toward the end of the book he notices that he isnt a bad person, he is just misunderstood.

People think that staying in his house all day has turned his crazy and evil but Jem realizes that the reason “ why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time... it's because he wants to stay inside"(304).Boo sees how hateful and prejudice maycomb is and he stayed shut in his house to avoid all of that. Jem listened Atticus when he said, “you never really knew a man until you stood in his shoes and walked around in them" (374). This proves that Jem had been able to see Boo not just as Boo but as Nathan, a neighbor who doesn’t leave his house so he won't have to deal with the troubles in

Maycomb.

Now although people might say that Scout changed the most in To Kill A Mockingbird.While they could say she has changed the most because at the beginning she thinks that boo is a scary monster and toward the end of the book when Atticus asks if she knew why they said that Bob Ewell killed himself instead of taking in count that Boo could of done it she says “it’d be sorta like shootin’ a mockingbird”(370).That showed that she also got passed the fear of him like jem and saw him for who he really is. She even walks him home and talks to him normally at the end of the book.Scout has changed a lot in that aspect but not much more than that.

Jem on the other hand not only changed in how he saw Boo Radley but also in how he thinks.When he found Dill in Scout’s room one of the first things he said was “You oughta let you mom know where you are”(187).That shows that he was thinking as an adult and of how worried Dill’s mom must be so he told atticus. Also it shows how he cares more about doing the right thing than keeping his friendship with Scout and Dill. In conclusion, Jem has changed the most in To KIll A Mockingbird because he learned how to think like an adult, and started seeing boo radley as who he really is and not as how people made him seem.